Deuteronomy 25:8-10

The Voice

⁸ The elders of his city will send for him and try to persuade him. He may resist and say, “I don’t want to marry her!” ⁹ In that case, the widow will come up to him, with the elders looking on, and pull one of his sandals off his foot, spit in his face, and then say, “If a man won’t make sure his brother’s family line continues, he deserves this kind of disgrace for not continuing his brother’s house!” ¹⁰ From then on, throughout Israel, his family will be known as “the house with the missing sandal,” and they’ll all be disgraced.