Deuteronomy 25:10

10 That man’s line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.

Deuteronomy 25:10 in Other Translations

10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

10 And the name of his house shall be called in Israel, 'The house of him who had his sandal pulled off.'

10 Ever afterward in Israel his family will be referred to as ‘the family of the man whose sandal was pulled off’!

10 - his name in Israel will be Family-No-Sandal."

10 And his name shall be called in Israel, The house of him that hath his shoe loosed.

10 Then in Israel his family will be called the Family of the Man Without a Sandal.

10 And his [family] name in Israel will be called 'The house of the man whose sandal was removed.'

10 That man's family line will be known in Israel as The Family of the Man Whose Sandal Was Pulled Off.

Deuteronomy 25:10 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 25:10

And his name shall be called in Israel
Not his particular and personal name, but his family; for it seems that not only a mark of infamy was set upon him for refusing to marry his brother's widow, but upon his family also;

the house of him that hath his shoe loosed;
which, as Leo of Modena says ^F19, was repeated by her three times; and at every time the people with a loud voice answer and call him, one that had his shoe loosed; and then the Rabbin tells the man that he is at liberty now to marry whom he pleases; and if he desires a certificate from them of this setting free his kinswoman, they presently give him one; and she also had a writing given to her by the judges, certifying the same, that she was free also to marry another; of which the following is a short form or copy ^F20.

``In such or such a session (or court), such an one, the daughter of such an one, plucked off the shoe of such an one, the son of such an one, before us; she brought him before us, and she loosed the shoe of his right foot, and spit before him spittle, which was seen by us upon the ground; and said, so shall it be done to the man that would not build up his brother's house.''

A larger form may be seen in Maimonides ^F21, as well as a type and copy of the matrimonial contract. From this law an high priest was free, ( Leviticus 21:14 ) ; and so a king, according to the Jewish canon ^F23.

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FOOTNOTES:

F19 History, ut supra, sect. 5. (Leo Modena's History of Rites l. 1. sect. 5.)
F20 T. Hieros. Sanhedrin, fol. 19. 1.
F21 Hilchot Yebum Vechalitzah, c. 4. sect. 29.
F23 Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 2. sect. 2.

Deuteronomy 25:10 In-Context

8 Then the elders of his town shall summon him and talk to him. If he persists in saying, “I do not want to marry her,”

9 his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, take off one of his sandals, spit in his face and say, “This is what is done to the man who will not build up his brother’s family line.”

10 That man’s line shall be known in Israel as The Family of the Unsandaled.

11 If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts,

12 you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.