You shall appoint judges and officers in all your gates, which Jehovah your God gives you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.

then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done that evil thing, and shall stone that man or woman with stones until they have died.

then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his place.

But if the man does not desire 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 raise up a name to his brother in Israel; he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.

when I went out to the gate through the city, when I set up my seat in the open square.

if I have waved my hand against the fatherless, when I was looking after my help in the gate;

They hate him who rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks uprightly.

For I know your many transgressions, and your many sins: afflicting the just, taking bribes, and thrusting away the poor from justice in the gate.

Now it is true that I am a kinsman redeemer; however, there is a kinsman redeemer closer than I.

Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat. Yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.

Ho! Ho! Flee from the land of the north, says Jehovah; for I have scattered you as the four winds of the heavens, declares Jehovah.