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;|


In Context

5 If brothers dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married outside to a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him as wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her.

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.

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.|

8 Then 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;|

9 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, |So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.|

10 His name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe untied.

Deuteronomy 25:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

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;

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

25:8Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, "I do not want to marry her,"

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

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;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

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;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

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,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

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;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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;