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“Then the elders of the city shall call him and commune with him. If he stands and says, ‘I will not take her’,

“then his kinswoman shall come to him in the presence of the elders and loosen his shoe from his foot and spit in his face and answer, and say, ‘So shall it be done to that man who will not build up his brother’s house.’

10 “And his name shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him whose shoe is put off.’

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