Catholic Public Domain Version
"And immediately, they shall summon him to be sent, and they shall question him. If he responds, ‘I am not willing to accept her as a wife,’ "
— Deuteronomy 25:8, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Then 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;”
“Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her; ”
“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;"”
“Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying,“I don’t want to marry her,””
“And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and shall ask him. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:”
“Then the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with him: and if he still says, I will not take her;”
“Then 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;”
When brothers are living together, and one of them dies without children, the wife of the deceased shall not marry another. Instead, his brother shall take her, and he shall raise up offspring for his brother.
And the first son from her, he shall call by his brother’s name, so that his name will not be abolished from Israel.
But if he is not willing to take his brother’s wife, who by law must go to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and she shall call upon those greater by birth, and she shall say: ‘The brother of my husband is not willing to raise up his brother’s name in Israel; nor will he join with me.’
And immediately, they shall summon him to be sent, and they shall question him. If he responds, ‘I am not willing to accept her as a wife,’
then the woman shall approach him in the sight of the elders, and she shall remove his shoe from his foot, and she shall spit in his face, and she shall say: ‘So shall it be done to the man who was not willing to build up his brother’s house.’
And his name shall be called in Israel: The House of the Unshod.
If two men have a conflict between themselves, and one begins to do violence to the other, and if the other’s wife, wanting to rescue her husband from the hand of the stronger one, extends her hand and grasps him by his private parts,