Deuteronomy 25:7

New International Version

However, if a man does not want to marry his brother’s wife, she shall go to the elders at the town gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to carry on his brother’s name in Israel. He will not fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to me.”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 25:8

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,”

Ruth 4:11

Then the elders and all the people at the gate said, “We are witnesses. May the Lord make the woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the family of Israel. May you have standing in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.