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Deuteronomy 25:7

"But if the man does not desire to take his brother's widow, then his brother's widow shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'

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Deuteronomy 25:8

"Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, 'I do not desire to take her,'

Deuteronomy 25:9

then his brother's widow shall come up to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, 'This is what is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house!'

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Deuteronomy 25:10

"And in Israel his family shall be called by the name, 'The house of him whose sandal was removed.'

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