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Deuteronomy 25:8-15 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

8. and the elders of his city have called for him, and spoken unto him, and he hath stood and said, I have no desire to take her;

9. `Then hath his brother's wife drawn nigh unto him, before the eyes of the elders, and drawn his shoe from off his foot, and spat in his face, and answered and said, Thus it is done to the man who doth not build up the house of his brother;

10. and his name hath been called in Israel--The house of him whose shoe is drawn off.

11. `When men strive together, one with another, and the wife of the one hath drawn near to deliver her husband out of the hand of his smiter, and hath put forth her hand, and laid hold on his secrets,

12. then thou hast cut off her hand, thine eye doth not spare.

13. `Thou hast not in thy bag a stone and a stone, a great and a small.

14. Thou hast not in thy house an ephah and an ephah, a great and a small.

15. Thou hast a stone complete and just, thou hast an ephah complete and just, so that they prolong thy days on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee;

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