Law Courts

⁸ If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge^(A)—whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults^(B)—take them to the place the Lord your God will choose.^(C)

¹⁹ his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.

¹⁵ then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate^(A) proof that she was a virgin.