Deuteronomy 21:19
Good News Translation
His parents are to take him before the leaders of the town where he lives and make him stand trial.

New Revised Standard Version
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the gate of that place.

Contemporary English Version
If a son is like that, his parents must drag him to the town gate, where the leaders of the town hold their meetings.

New American Bible
his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders at the gate of his home city,

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of the city, and to the gate of judgment,

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They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of the city, and to the gate of judgment,

and bring

Deuteronomy 21:2 Thy ancients and judges shall go out, and shall measure from the place where the body lieth the distance of every city round about:

Deuteronomy 16:18 Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they may judge the people with just judgment,

Deuteronomy 25:7 But if he will not take his brother's wife, who by law belongeth to him, the woman shall go to the gate of the city, and call upon the ancients, and say: My husband's brother refuseth to raise up his brother's name in Israel: and will not take me to wife.

Zechariah 13:3 And it shall come to pass, that when any man shall prophesy any more, his father and his mother that brought him into the world, shall say to him: Thou shalt not live: because thou hast spoken a lie in the name of the Lord. And his father, and his mother, his parents, shall thrust him through, when he shall prophesy.

Context
A Rebellious Son
18If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience: 19They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of the city, and to the gate of judgment,20And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:

Deuteronomy 21:20
And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:

Jeremiah 38:7
Now Abdemelech the Ethiopian, an eunuch that was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon: but the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin.

Deuteronomy 21:18
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