Deuteronomy 25:5-12 - Preserving The Family Line

⁵ If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies, and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside to a stranger. Her husband's brother shall go in to her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a ⁶ And it shall be, that the first-born who she bears shall succeed in the name of his brother who is dead, that his name be not blotted out of Israel. ⁷ And if the man does not want to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuses to raise up to his brother a name in Israel. He will not perform the duty ⁸ Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him. And if he stands, and says, I do not want to take her, ⁹ then his brother's wife shall come to him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face. And she shall answer and say, So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother's h ¹⁰ And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him who has his shoe loosed.

¹¹ When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who smites him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the privates, ¹² then thou shall cut off her hand. Thine eye shall have no pity.