Deuteronomy 25:8-10

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁸ Then the elders of his town shall summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying, ‘I have no desire to marry her’, ⁹ then his brother’s wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, pull his sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and declare, ‘This is what is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’ ¹⁰ Throughout Israel his family shall be known as ‘the house of him whose sandal was pulled off.’