Deuteronomy 25:6
It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
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Deuteronomy 25:6
It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
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Deuteronomy 25:7
If the man doesn’t want 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 raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”
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Deuteronomy 25:8
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
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Deuteronomy 25:9
then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”
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Deuteronomy 25:10
His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his sandal removed.”
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