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Deuteronomy 21:20

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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.”

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Deuteronomy 21:20 in other translations

and they shall say unto 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.

Deuteronomy 21:20 · American Standard Version

Deuteronomy 21:20 in context

  1. 18If 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,
  2. 19then 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.
  3. 20They 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.”
  4. 21All 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.
  5. 22If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,