- The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
- However, if a man does not want to marry his brother's wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, "My husband's brother refuses to carry on his brother's name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me."
- Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, "I do not want to marry her,"
- his brother's widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, "This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother's family line."
- That man's line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.
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- "It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
- "But if the man does not desire 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 establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'
- "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,'
- then his brother's wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, 'Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.'
- "In Israel his name shall be called, 'The house of him whose sandal is removed.'
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