3 Give no more than forty blows. If more than that is given, your fellow Israelite would be completely disgraced in your eyes.
4 Don’t muzzle an ox while it is threshing grain.
5 If brothers live together and one of them dies without having a son, the dead man’s wife must not go outside the family and marry a stranger. Instead, her brother-in-law should go to her and take her as his wife. He will then consummate the marriage according to the brother-in-law’s duty.
6 The brother-in-law will name the oldest male son that she bears after his dead brother so that his brother’s legacy will not be forgotten in Israel.
7 If the brother does not want to marry his sister-in-law, she can go to the elders at the city gate, informing them: "My brother-in-law refuses to continue his brother’s legacy in Israel. He’s not willing to perform the brother-in-law’s duty with me."
8 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,"
9 then the sister-in-law will approach him while the elders watch. She will pull the sandal off his foot and spit in his face. Then she will exclaim: "That’s what’s done to any man who won’t build up his own brother’s family!"