Deuteronomy:25:5-10
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:5 @ "If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside the family to a stranger; her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:6 @ And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his brother who is dead, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:7 @ And if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, `My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:8 @ Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he persists, saying, `I do not wish to take her,'
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:9 @ then his brother's wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, `So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:25:10 @ And the name of his house shall be called in Israel, The house of him that had his sandal pulled off.
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