8Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, "I do not want to marry her,"
8Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, "I do not want to marry her,"
5 If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband's brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.
6 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.
7 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."
8 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,"
9 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."
10 That man's line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.
25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and [if] he stand [to it,] and say, I like not to take her;
25:8And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and shall ask him. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:
25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her;
25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak unto him; and if he stand to it and say, I like not to take her;
25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her;
25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he shall stand to it, and say, I like not to take her,
25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, |I don't want to take her;|
25:8and the elders of his city have called for him, and spoken unto him, and he hath stood and said, I have no desire to take her;
25:8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;