Deuteronomy 25:7

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she is to go to the elders at the city gate  and say, “My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 25:8

The elders of his city will summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I don’t want to marry her,”

Ruth 4:11

All the people who were at the city gate, including the elders, said, ‘We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is entering your house like Rachel and Leah,  who together built the house of Israel. May you be powerful in Ephrathah and your name well known in Bethlehem.