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Devarim 25:4-11 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

4. Thou shalt not muzzle the shor when he treadeth out the grain [1C 9:9; 1Ti 5:18].

5. If achim dwell together, and one of them die, and ben ain lo (have no child), the eshet hamet (wife of the dead) shall not marry outside unto an ish zar (strange man); her yevam (deceased husband's brother) shall go in unto her, and take her to him as a wife, and perform the levirate marriage.

6. And it shall be, that the bechor which she beareth shall succeed in the shem of his brother which is dead, that shmo be not blotted out from Yisroel [see Ruth].

7. And if the ish like not to take his brother's isha, then let his brother's isha go up to the sha'ar unto the zekenim, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a shem in Yisroel, he will not perform the levirate marriage with me.

8. Then the zekenim of his town shall call him, and speak unto him; and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;

9. Then shall his brother's isha come unto him in the presence of the zekenim, and remove his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that ish that will not build up the bais achiv (the house of his brother).

10. And shmo shall be called in Yisroel, The bais of him that hath his sandal loosed.

11. When anashim strive together one with another, and the eshet (wife) of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that striketh him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the private parts,

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