World English Bible (WEB)
"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.""
Moses' final speeches reviewing the Law before Israel enters Canaan.
Old Testament • Book #5
If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be ...
Deuteronomy 25:6It shall be, that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead,...
Deuteronomy 25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, "I do not wa...
Deuteronomy 25:9then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off...
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