4. When an ox is working in the grain, do not cover its mouth to keep it from eating.
5. Two brothers might be living together. One of them might die without having a son. His widow must not marry someone outside her husband’s family. Her husband’s brother must marry her. This is his duty for her as a brother-in-law.
6. The first son she has must be named for the dead brother. Then his name will not be forgotten in Israel.
7. But a man might not want to marry his brother’s widow. Then she should go to the elders at the town gate. And she should say, “My brother-in-law will not carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He refuses to do his duty for me.”
8. Then the elders of the town must call for the man and talk to him. But he might be stubborn and say, “I don’t want to marry her.”