A SANDAL — a sole and straps, the ordinary footwear, and in the Bible a legal object as often as a shoe. Moses takes his off on holy ground (Exodus 3:5, already on these pages) and Joshua after him (Joshua 5:15, not yet on these pages); Israel's did not wear out in forty years (Deuteronomy 29:4 in the Hebrew numbering, 29:5 in English, not yet on these pages). ⭐ At Deuteronomy 25:9–10 a widow pulls it off the man who will not marry her, and his family is named for it, the house of him whose sandal was pulled off; at Ruth 4:7–8 (not yet on these pages) a redeemer draws off his own, with a different verb, shalaph, and hands it over to seal a sale — a shoe standing for a right of possession, which is also what Psalm 60:10's on Edom I cast my sandal means (60:8 in English numbering, not yet on these pages). ⚠ Amos twice indicts a court that sells the poor for a pair of sandals (Amos 2:6 and 8:6, not yet on these pages) — the price of a man set at the cheapest thing on his feet. The Geneva, KJV and ASV print 'shoe' throughout; the NIV, NWT and TLB 'sandal'. → first discussed at Deut 25:9