Deuteronomy 25:8
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New International Version (©1984)
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 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,'

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 Bible
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;

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;

Bible in Basic English
Then the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with him: and if he still says, I will not 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;

Geneva Study Bible

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;

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.


Deuteronomy 25:7 "But if the man does not desire to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, 'My husband's brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.'
Deuteronomy 25:9 then his brother's wife shall come to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, 'Thus it is done to the man who does not build up his brother's house.' (NASB ©1995)

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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;

I like not Ru 4:6

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