Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
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Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
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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;
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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';
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Passages linked to Deuteronomy 25:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Ruth 4:6 The near kinsman said, “I can’t redeem it for myself, lest I endanger my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption for yourself; for I can’t redeem it.”
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Speak unto him, to convince him of the duty,…
Speak unto him, to convince him of the duty, and persuade him to it.
If he stand to it; if he obstinately refuse it.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then the elders of his city shall call him,....…
Then the elders of his city shall call him,.... Require him to come, before them, and declare his resolution, and the reasons for it; recite this law to him, and explain the nature of it, and exhort him to comply with it, or show reason why he does not, at least to have his final resolution upon it:
and speak unto him; talk with him upon this subject, and give him their best advice; and what that was Maimonides (o) more particularly informs us; if it is good and advisable to marry, they advise him to marry; but if it is better advice to pluck off the shoe, they give it; as when she is young and he is old, or she is old and he young, they advise him to allow the shoe to be plucked off:
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and if he stand to it: and say, I like not to take her; if, after all the conversation, debate, and counsel between them, he is resolute, and abides by his first determination, that he will not marry her, then the following method was to be taken.
(o) Yebum Vechalitzab, c. 4. sect. 1.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 8. This v. really continues the protasis of the…
8. This v. really continues the protasis of the cond. sentence which starts in Deu_25:7; the apodosis begins with Deu_25:9.
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