Deuteronomy 25:6-8

Revised Geneva Translation

⁶ “And the firstborn which she bears shall succeed in the name of his dead brother, so that his name is not put out of Israel.

⁷ “And if the man will not take his kinswoman, then let his kinswoman go up to the gate, to the elders, and say, ‘My kinsman refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not do the office of a kinsman to me.’

⁸ “Then the elders of the city shall call him and commune with him. If he stands and says, ‘I will not take her’,