6. Now the firstborn that she bears is to carry on the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out of Israel.
7. But if the man does not want to take his brother’s widow, his brother’s widow is to go to the elders at the gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel—he is unwilling to perform a brother-in-law’s duty for me.’
8. Then the elders of his town are to summon him and speak to him. And if he stands firm and says, ‘I do not desire to take her,’
9. then his brother’s widow is to come to him in the sight of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and reply, ‘So will it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’
10. Then his name is to be called in Israel ‘the house of the pulled-off sandal.’
11. “Suppose people fight with one another, a man and his brother, and the wife of the one approaches to rescue her husband from the hand of the one hitting him; and she puts out her hand and grabs him by his genitals.
12. Then you are to cut off her hand—your eye will show no pity.
13. “You are not to have stones of different weights in your bag—large and small.
14. You are not to have in your house ephahs of different measures—large and small.
15. You must have a full and honest weight and a full and honest measure, so that your days may be long on the land that Adonai your God is giving you.
16. For all who do these things, all who do injustice, are detestable to Adonai your God.