Deuteronomy:25:5-12
vw@Deuteronomy:25:5 @ If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the widow of the dead man shall not be married to a strange man outside the family; her husbands brother shall go in to her, take her as his wife, and perform the duty of a husbands brother to her.
vw@Deuteronomy:25:6 @ And it shall be that the firstborn son which she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
vw@Deuteronomy:25:7 @ But if the man does not desire to take his brothers wife, then his brothers wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husbands brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husbands brother.
vw@Deuteronomy:25:8 @ If after the elders of his city have summoned him and spoken to him, he has stood firm and said, I do not desire to take her,
vw@Deuteronomy:25:9 @ then his brothers wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who will not build up the house of his brother.
vw@Deuteronomy:25:10 @ And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who had his sandal removed.
vw@Deuteronomy:25:11 @ If two men strive with one another, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one striking him, and puts out her hand and grabs him by the genitals,
vw@Deuteronomy:25:12 @ then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not pity.
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