Deuteronomy 25:8

Then the elders of the city are to summon him and speak with him. If he insists on saying, "I don't want to marry her,'

Ruth 4:6

At this, the nearer related redeemer replied, "Then I am unable to act as related redeemer, because that would complicate my own inheritance. You act instead as the related redeemer, because I cannot do so."

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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;

I like not

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I like not

Ruth 4:6
At this, the nearer related redeemer replied, "Then I am unable to act as related redeemer, because that would complicate my own inheritance. You act instead as the related redeemer, because I cannot do so."

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Genesis 38:8
So Judah instructed Onan, "You are to have sexual relations with your dead brother's wife, performing the duty of a brother-in-law with her, and have offspring for your brother."
Luke 20:28
and asked him, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man's brother dies and leaves a wife but no child, the man should marry the widow and have children for his brother.

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