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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Deuteronomy 25:9

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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25:9 pull his sandal from his foot: Using footwear, which touched the ground, the brother-in-law showed that he relinquished any claim to his dead brother’s estate (Ruth 4:7). • spit in his face: This is an almost universal gesture of utter contempt (see Num 12:14).
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