NET Bible
"Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying,“I don’t want to marry her,”"
— Deuteronomy 25:8, NET Bible
“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;"”
“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;”
Respect for the Sanctity of Others If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not remarry someone outside the family. Instead, her late husband’s brother must go to her, marry her, and perform the duty of a brother-in-law.
Then the first son she bears will continue the name of the dead brother, thus preventing his name from being blotted out of Israel.
But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, then she must go to the elders at the town gate and say,“My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!”
Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying,“I don’t want to marry her,”
then his sister-in-law must approach him in view of the elders, remove his sandal from his foot, and spit in his face. She will then respond,“Thus may it be done to any man who does not maintain his brother’s family line!”
His family name will be referred to in Israel as“the family of the one whose sandal was removed.”
If two men get into a hand-to-hand fight, and the wife of one of them gets involved to help her husband against his attacker, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his private parts,