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Deuteronomy 25:8-15 English Standard Version (ESV)

8. 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,’

9. then his brother’s wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’

10. And the name of his house shall be called in Israel, ‘The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.’

11. “When men fight with one another and the wife of the one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who is beating him and puts out her hand and seizes him by the private parts,

12. then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.

13. “You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a large and a small.

14. You shall not have in your house two kinds of measures, a large and a small.

15. A full and fair weight you shall have, a full and fair measure you shall have, that your days may be long in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.