Deuteronomy 21:19
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New International Version (©2011)
his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.

New Living Translation (©2007)
In such a case, the father and mother must take the son to the elders as they hold court at the town gate.

English Standard Version (©2001)
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.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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;

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
his father and mother must take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown.

International Standard Version (©2012)
then his parents are to seize him and bring him before the elders at the gate of his city.

NET Bible (©2006)
his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
His father and mother must take him to the leaders of the city at the city gate.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
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;

American King James Version
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;

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;

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

Darby Bible 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;

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;

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;

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,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

21:18-21 Observe how the criminal is here described. He is a stubborn and rebellious son. No child was to fare the worse for weakness of capacity, slowness, or dulness, but for wilfulness and obstinacy. Nothing draws men into all manner of wickedness, and hardens them in it more certainly and fatally, than drunkenness. When men take to drinking, they forget the law of honouring parents. His own father and mother must complain of him to the elders of the city. Children who forget their duty, must thank themselves, and not blame their parents, if they are regarded with less and less affection. He must be publicly stoned to death by the men of his city. Disobedience to a parent's authority must be very evil, when such a punishment was ordered; nor is it less provoking to God now, though it escapes punishment in this world. But when young people early become slaves to sensual appetites, the heart soon grows hard, and the conscience callous; and we can expect nothing but rebellion and destruction.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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.

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A Rebellious Son
18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not listen to them: 19Then 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; 20And they shall say to 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 21:18 If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him,
Deuteronomy 21:20 They shall say to the elders, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard."
Jeremiah 38:7 But Ebed-Melek, a Cushite, an official in the royal palace, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern. While the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate,