jps - Deuteronomy:25:5-10

jps@Deuteronomy:25:5 @ If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not be married abroad unto one not of his kin; her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother unto her.

jps@Deuteronomy:25:6 @ And it shall be, that the first-born that she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother that is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel.

jps@Deuteronomy:25:7 @ And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate unto the elders, and say: 'My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother unto me.'

jps@Deuteronomy:25:8 @ Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him; and if he stand, and say: 'I like not to take her';

jps@Deuteronomy:25:9 @ then shall his brother's wife draw nigh unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say: 'So shall it be done unto the man that doth not build up his brother's house.'

jps@Deuteronomy:25:10 @ And his name shall be called in Israel The house of him that had his shoe loosed.