Deuteronomio 25:8

8 Entonces los ancianos de su ciudad lo llamarán y le hablarán. Y si él persiste y dice: "No deseo tomarla",

Deuteronomio 25:8 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 25:8

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 ^F15 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:

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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 Yebum Vechalitzab, c. 4. sect. 1.

Deuteronomio 25:8 In-Context

6 Y será que el primogénito que ella dé a luz llevará el nombre de su hermano difunto, para que su nombre no sea borrado de Israel.

7 Pero si el hombre no quiere tomar a su cuñada, entonces su cuñada irá a la puerta, a los ancianos, y dirá: "Mi cuñado se niega a establecer un nombre para su hermano en Israel; no quiere cumplir para conmigo su deber de cuñado."

8 Entonces los ancianos de su ciudad lo llamarán y le hablarán. Y si él persiste y dice: "No deseo tomarla",

9 entonces su cuñada vendrá a él a la vista de los ancianos, le quitará la sandalia de su pie y le escupirá en la cara; y ella declarará: "Así se hace al hombre que no quiere edificar la casa de su hermano."

10 Y en Israel se le llamará: "La casa del de la sandalia quitada."