When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern—the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate—
Deuteronomy 21:19 - 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, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then his father and 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, American Standard Version (1901) 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; Common English Bible the father and mother will take the son before the elders of that city at its gates. Catholic Public Domain Version they shall take him and lead him to the elders of the city and to the gate of judgment. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of his city, and to the gate of judgment: |
When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch, who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern—the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate—
And if any one again appears as a prophet, his father and mother who bore him will say to him, ‘You shall not live, for you speak lies in the name of the Lord’; and his father and mother who bore him shall pierce him through when he prophesies.
“You shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns which the Lord your God gives you, according to your tribes; and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.
“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 chastise him, will not give heed to them,
then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure the distance to the cities which are around him that is slain;
and 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.’
And if the man does not wish to take his brother's wife, then his brother's wife shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband's brother refuses to perpetuate his brother's name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband's brother to me.’