Deuteronomy 25:8
World English Bible (WEB)
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
In context
6 It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name not be blotted out of Israel.
7 If the man doesn’t want 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 to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.”
8 Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
9 then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his sandal from off his foot, and spit in his face. She shall answer and say, “So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.”
10 His name shall be called in Israel, “The house of him who had his sandal removed.”
Deuteronomy 25:8 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
- KJV King James Version
- Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,”
- ASV American Standard Version
- Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand, and say, I like not to take her;
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- 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;
- DBY Darby Translation
- Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak unto him; and if he stand to it and say, I like not to take her;
- WBS Webster Bible
- Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he shall stand to it , and say, I like not to take her,