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Deuteronomy 21:19 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place. "

Deuteronomy 21:19

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17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.

18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,

19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.

20 They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

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Deuteronomy 21:1

"If someone is found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him,"

Deuteronomy 21:2

"then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain."

Deuteronomy 21:3

"It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke."

Deuteronomy 21:4

"The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley."

Deuteronomy 21:5

"The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them the LORD your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the LORD’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided."

Deuteronomy 21:6

"All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley."

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