Deuteronomy 25:8
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New International Version (©2011)
Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, "I do not want to marry her,"

New Living Translation (©2007)
The elders of the town will then summon him and talk with him. If he still refuses and says, 'I don't want to marry her,'

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, ‘I do not wish to take her,’

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, 'I do not desire to take her,'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
The elders of his city will summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, 'I don't want to marry her,'

International Standard Version (©2012)
Then the elders of the city are to summon him and speak with him. If he insists on saying, 'I don't want to marry her,'

NET Bible (©2006)
Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying, "I don't want to marry her,"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Then the leaders of the city must summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying that he doesn't want to marry her,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stands to it, and says, I desire not to take her;

American King James Version
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;

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;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and shall ask him. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:

Darby Bible 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;

English Revised 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;

Webster's Bible Translation
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,

World English Bible
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand, and say, "I don't want to take her;"

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;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

25:5-12 The custom here regulated seems to have been in the Jewish law in order to keep inheritances distinct; now it is unlawful.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then the elders of his city shall call him,.... Require him to come, before them, and declare his resolution, and the reasons for it; recite this law to him, and explain the nature of it, and exhort him to comply with it, or show reason why he does not, at least to have his final resolution upon it:

and speak unto him; talk with him upon this subject, and give him their best advice; and what that was Maimonides (o) more particularly informs us; if it is good and advisable to marry, they advise him to marry; but if it is better advice to pluck off the shoe, they give it; as when she is young and he is old, or she is old and he young, they advise him to allow the shoe to be plucked off:

and if he stand to it: and say, I like not to take her; if, after all the conversation, debate, and counsel between them, he is resolute, and abides by his first determination, that he will not marry her, then the following method was to be taken.

(o) Yebum Vechalitzab, c. 4. sect. 1.

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Widowhood and Marriage
…7And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife 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 my husband's brother. 8Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her; 9Then shall his brother's wife come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done to that man that will not build up his brother's house. …

Deuteronomy 25:7 However, if a man does not want to marry his brother's wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, "My husband's brother refuses to carry on his brother's name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me."
Deuteronomy 25:9 his brother's widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, "This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother's family line."
Ruth 4:7 (Now in earlier times in Israel, for the redemption and transfer of property to become final, one party took off his sandal and gave it to the other. This was the method of legalizing transactions in Israel.)