Deuteronomy 25:8 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

Then the elders of his town shall summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying, “I have no desire to marry her,”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him. And if he stands firm and says, I do not want to take her,

American Standard Version (1901)

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;

Common English Bible

The city’s elders will summon him and talk to him about this. If he doesn’t budge, insisting, “I don’t want to marry her,”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And immediately, they shall summon him to be sent, and they shall question him. If he responds, 'I am not willing to accept her as a wife,'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And they shall cause him to be sent for forthwith, and shall ask him. If he answer: I will not take her to wife:

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Deuteronomy 25:7

But if the man has no desire to marry his brother's widow, then his brother's widow shall go up to the elders at the gate and say, “My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.”

Deuteronomy 25:9

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.”

Ruth 4:4

So I thought I would tell you of it, and say: Buy it in the presence of those sitting here, and in the presence of the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if you will not, tell me, so that I may know; for there is no one prior to you to redeem it, and I come after you.” So he said, “I will redeem it.”

Ruth 4:6

At this, the next-of-kin said, “I cannot redeem it for myself without damaging my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it.”

Ruth 4:7

Now this was the custom in former times in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging: to confirm a transaction, the one took off a sandal and gave it to the other; this was the manner of attesting in Israel.