lesserot Deuteronomy:25:5-10
lesserot@Deuteronomy:25:5 @ If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child: then shall the wife of the dead not be married abroad, unto a stranger; her husbands brother shall go in unto her, and take her to himself for wife, and perform the duty of a husbands brother unto her.
lesserot@Deuteronomy:25:6 @ And it shall be, that the firstborn whom she may bear shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead; so that his name be not blotted out of Israel.
lesserot@Deuteronomy:25:7 @ And if the man have no desire to take his sisterinlaw: then shall his sisterinlaw go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husbands brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform on me the duty of a husbands brother.
lesserot@Deuteronomy:25:8 @ Then shall the elders of his city call him, and speak unto him; and if he persist, and say, I have no desire to take her:
lesserot@Deuteronomy:25:9 @ Then shall his sisterinlaw come nigh unto him in the presence of the elders, and pull his shoe from off his foot, and spit out before him, and shall commence and say, Thus shall be done unto that man that will not build up his brothers house.
lesserot@Deuteronomy:25:10 @ And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of the barefooted.
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