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Deuteronomy 25:9
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7 But if the man does not want to take his brother’s wife, then let his brother’s wife go up to the agate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband’s brother.’  
8 Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. But if he stands firm and says, a‘I do not want to take her,’  
9 then his brother’s wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, aremove his sandal from his foot, spit in his face, and answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who will not bbuild up his brother’s house.’  
10 And his name shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal removed.’

Miscellaneous Laws

11 “If two men fight together, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one attacking him, and puts out her hand and seizes him by the genitals,
12 then you shall cut off her hand; ayour eye shall not pity her.  
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John Wesley's Notes
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Deuteronomy 25:9

Loose his shoe - As a sign of his resignation of all his right to the woman, and to her husband's inheritance: for as the shoe was a sign of one's power and right, Psalms 60:8, Psalms 108:9, so the parting with the shoe was a token of the alienation of such right; and as a note of infamy, to signify that by this disingenuous action he was unworthy to be amongst free - men, and fit to be reduced to the condition of the meanest servants, who used to go barefoot, Isaiah 20:2, Isaiah 20:4.




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