Deuteronomy 25:7-9

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7 ^aBut if the man does not desire to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’ 8 Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he stands and says, ‘I do not desire to take her,’ 9 ^athen his brother’s wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and ^bspit in his face; and she shall answer and say, ‘Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’