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Deuteronomy 25:7-18 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

7. “But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Yisra’ĕl, he does not agree to perform the duty of my husband’s brother.’

8. “The elders of his city shall then call him and speak to him, and he shall stand and say, ‘I have no desire to take her,’

9. then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and remove his sandal from his foot, and shall spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’

10. “And in Yisra’ĕl his name shall be called, ‘The house of him who had his sandal removed.’

11. “When men fight with one another, and the wife of one shall draw near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and shall put out her hand and seize him by the genitals,

12. then you shall cut off her hand – your eye does not pardon.

13. “You shall not have in your bag differing weights, a heavy and a light.

14. “You shall not have in your house differing measures, a large and a small.

15. “You shall have a perfect and right weight, a perfect and right measure, so that they prolong your days on the soil which יהוה your Elohim is giving you.

16. “For all who do these, and all who do unrighteously, are an abomination to יהוה your Elohim.

17. “Remember what Amalĕq did to you on the way as you were coming out of Mitsrayim,

18. how he met you on the way and attacked your back, all the feeble ones in your rear, when you were tired and weary. And he did not fear Elohim.

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