Teks -- Deuteronomy 25:8 (NET)

25:8 Then the elders of his city must summon him and speak to him. If he persists, saying, “I don’t want to marry her,”

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JFB: Deu 25:5-10 - the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother . . . shall take her to him to wife

This usage existed before the age of Moses (Gen 38:8). But the Mosaic law rendered the custom obligatory (Mat 22:25) on younger brothers, or the nearest kinsman, to marry the widow (Rth 4:4), by associating the natural desire of perpetuating a brother's name with the preservation of property in the Hebrew families and tribes. If the younger brother declined to comply with the law, the widow brought her claim before the authorities of the place at a public assembly (the gate of the city); and he having declared his refusal, she was ordered to loose the thong of his shoe--a sign of degradation--following up that act by spitting on the ground-- the strongest expression of ignominy and contempt among Eastern people. The shoe was kept by the magistrate as an evidence of the transaction, and the parties separated.

TSK: Deu 25:8 - I like not

I like not : Rth 4:6

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Poole: Deu 25:8 - Speak unto him // If he stand to it

Speak unto him to convince him of the duty, and persuade him to it.

If he stand to it if he obstinately refuse it.

Gill: Deu 25:8 - 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

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 ^o 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.