מָאֵן

Meanwhile, by the word of the LORD, one of the sons of the prophets said to his companion, “Strike me, please!”But the man refused to strike him.

But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”

But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.

Therefore the showers have been withheld,and no spring rains have fallen.Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute;you refuse to be ashamed.

So Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.