Deuteronomy 21:20 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁰ They shall say to the elders of his town, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ And they shall say to the elders of his city, This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard. [Prov. 23:20-22.]

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁰ Then they will inform the city’s elders: “This son of ours is consistently stubborn and rebellious, refusing to listen to us. What’s more, he’s wild and a drunkard.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ And they shall say to them: 'This our son is reckless and disobedient. He shows contempt when listening to our admonitions. He occupies himself with carousing, and self-indulgence, and feasting.'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Deuteronomy 21:20 Cross References

2 Samuel 18:17

They took Absalom, threw him into a great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones. Meanwhile all the Israelites fled to their homes.

Proverbs 19:26

Those who do violence to their father and chase away their mother are children who cause shame and bring reproach.

Proverbs 20:1

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.

Proverbs 29:17

Discipline your children, and they will give you rest; they will give delight to your heart.

Deuteronomy 21:19

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.

Deuteronomy 21:21

Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.