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Deuteronomy 25 📜 📕 ↷
Widowhood and Marriage
5 When brethren shall dwell together, and one of them die without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry to an other: But his brother shall take her, & raise up the seed of his brother:📜💬📚
6 & the first born son of her he shall call by his name, that his name be not abolished out of Israel.📜💬📚
7 But if he will not take his brother's wife, that by law is due to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and call upon the ancients, and say: My husband's brother will not raise up his brother's seed in Israel: nor take me to his wife.📜💬📚
8 And forthwith they shall cause him to be sent for, and shall ask him. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:📜💬📚
9 the woman shall come to him before the ancients, and shall take off his shoe from his foot, and spit in his face, and say: So shall it be done to the man, that buildeth not his brother's house.📜💬📚
10 And his name shall be called in Israel The house of the unshod.📜💬📚
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