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And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
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Deuteronomy 21:19
Then let his father and his mother take him and bring him out unto the elders of that city and unto the gate of that same place,
Ruth 4:1
Then went Boaz unto the gate and sat him down there. And behold, the kinsman of which Boaz spake came by. Unto whom he said, "Come and sit down here, and called him by his name." And he turned in and sat down.
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Genesis 38:8
Then said Judah unto Onan, go in to thy brother's wife and marry her, and stir up seed unto thy brother.
Luke 20:28
saying, "Master, Moses wrote unto us, 'if any man's brother die having a wife; And the same die without issue: that then his brother should take his wife, and raise up seed unto his brother.'