Deu 25:5-8 | ESV | STEP | If brothers dwell together , and one of them dies and has no son , the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger . Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

Deuteronomy 25:5-8

Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage

5 ^a“If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her ^bhusband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her. 6 And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that ^chis name may not be blotted out of Israel. 7 And if the man does not wish to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall ^dgo up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to perpetuate his brother’s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’ 8 Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak to him, and if he persists, saying, ^e‘I do not wish to take her,’