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Complete Jewish Bible

Deuteronomy 21:19

then his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him out to the leaders of his town, at the gate of that place,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Children;   Church;   Court;   Fear of God;   Gates;   Government;   Punishment;   Self-Will;   Thompson Chain Reference - Children;   Courts;   Duty;   Fathers;   Gates;   Home;   Parental;   Social Duties;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children;   Courts of Justice;   Self-Will and Stubbornness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Father;   Gate;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - City;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Destroy, Destruction;   Discipline;   Elder;   Family Life and Relations;   Teach, Teacher;   Woman;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Alms;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gate;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Children;   Father;   Gate;   Law;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Court Systems;   Economic Life;   Elder;   Government;   Mother;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Child, Children;   Clean and Unclean;   Crimes and Punishments;   Deuteronomy;   Family;   Justice;   Obedience;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Children;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gate;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Ate;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gate;   Jephthah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Other Laws;   Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Child;   Elder in the Old Testament;   Gate;   Mother;   Obedience;   Relationships, Family;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Capital Punishment;   Family and Family Life;   Father;   Fear of Man;   Gate;   Majority;   Mother;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown.
Hebrew Names Version
then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the Zakenim of his city, and to the gate of his place;
King James Version
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
Lexham English Bible
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him, and they shall bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his town,
English Standard Version
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,
New Century Version
his parents must take him to the elders at the city gate.
New English Translation
his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.
Amplified Bible
then his father and mother shall take hold of him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.
New American Standard Bible
then his father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then shall his father and his mother take him, & bring him out vnto the Elders of his citie, & vnto the gate of the place where he dwelleth,
Legacy Standard Bible
then his father and mother shall seize him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.
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.
Darby Translation
then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
Easy-to-Read Version
His father and mother must then take him to the leaders of the town at the town meeting place.
George Lamsa Translation
Then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him, and bring him out to the eiders of the city, at the gate of his place;
Good News Translation
His parents are to take him before the leaders of the town where he lives and make him stand trial.
Literal Translation
then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
then shall his father and mother take him, and brynge him to ye Elders of their cite, and to the gate of the same place,
American Standard Version
then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
Bible in Basic English
Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then shall his father and his mother take hym, and bryng hym out vnto the elders of that citie, and vnto the gate of that same place,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
King James Version (1611)
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out vnto the Elders of his citie, and vnto the gate of his place:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him forth to the elders of his city, and to the gate of the place:
English Revised Version
then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
Berean Standard Bible
his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and dispisith to obei, thei schulen take hym, and schulen lede to the eldre men of that citee, and to the yate of doom;
Young's Literal Translation
then laid hold on him have his father and his mother, and they have brought him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place,
Update Bible Version
then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;
Webster's Bible Translation
Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;
World English Bible
then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;
New King James Version
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city.
New Living Translation
In such a case, the father and mother must take the son to the elders as they hold court at the town gate.
New Life Bible
then his father and mother will take hold of him and bring him to the leaders of his city at the gate of his city.
New Revised Standard
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.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
then shall his father and his mother, lay hold of him, - and bring him forth unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place;
Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of the city, and to the gate of judgment,
Revised Standard Version
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
then his father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.

Contextual Overview

18 "If a man has a stubborn, rebellious son who will not obey what his father or mother says, and even after they discipline him he still refuses to pay attention to them; 19 then his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him out to the leaders of his town, at the gate of that place, 20 and say to the leaders of his town, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he doesn't pay attention to us, lives wildly, gets drunk.' 21 Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death; in this way you will put an end to such wickedness among you, and all Isra'el will hear about it and be afraid. 22 (ii) "If someone has committed a capital crime and is put to death, then hung on a tree, 23 his body is not to remain all night on the tree, but you must bury him the same day, because a person who has been hanged has been cursed by God — so that you will not defile your land, which Adonai your God is giving you to inherit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

and bring: Deuteronomy 21:2, Deuteronomy 16:18, Deuteronomy 25:7, Zechariah 13:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 22:17 - thy seed Genesis 24:60 - thy seed Deuteronomy 25:6 - that his name Ruth 4:1 - to the gate Job 29:7 - General Proverbs 31:23 - in the Jeremiah 38:7 - the king

Cross-References

Genesis 21:5
(v) Avraham was one hundred years old when his son Yitz'chak [laughter] was born to him.
Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, "God has given me good reason to laugh; now everyone who hears about it will laugh with me."
Genesis 21:16
and went and sat down, looking the other way, about a bow-shot's distance from him; because she said, "I can't bear to watch my child die." So she sat there, looking the other way, crying out and weeping.
Genesis 21:17
God heard the boy's voice, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, "What's wrong with you, Hagar? Don't be afraid, because God has heard the voice of the boy in his present situation.
Genesis 21:20
God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the desert and became an archer.
Genesis 21:31
This is why that place was called Be'er-Sheva [well of seven, well of an oath] — because they both swore an oath there.
Numbers 22:31
Then Adonai opened Bil‘am's eyes, so that he could see the angel of Adonai standing in the way with his drawn sword in his hand, and he bowed his head and fell on his face.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him,.... With their own hands, or cause him to be apprehended by others, in which they were to agree, and which the Jews gather from hence;

"if (say they y) the father is willing (to bring him to justice), and the mother not willing, if his father is not willing and the mother is willing, he is not reckoned a stubborn or rebellious son, until they both agree:''

and bring him out unto the elders of his city; according to the Misnah z, the sanhedrim, or court of judicature, consisting of twenty three; for they say, that after he has been admonished and scourged by order of the bench of three, if he returns to his corrupt and wicked ways again, he is judged by the court of twenty three:

and unto the gate of his place; or city, where the court sat; so the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan, to the gate of the sanhedrim of his place.

y Misn. Sanhedrin, c. 8. sect. 4. z Ibid.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The formal accusation of parents against a child was to be received without inquiry, as being its own proof. Thus the just authority of the parents is recognized and effectually upheld (compare Exodus 20:12; Exodus 21:15, Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9); but the extreme and irresponsible power of life and death, conceded by the law of Rome and other pagan nations, is withheld from the Israelite father. In this, as in the last law, provision is made against the abuses of a necessary authority.


 
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