Difficult Cases

⁸ “If a case is too difficult for you—concerning bloodshed,^(A) lawsuits,^(B) or assaults^(C)—cases disputed at your city gates,^(D) then go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.

¹⁹ his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate^(A) of his hometown.

⁷ But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she is to go to the elders at the city gate^(A) and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.’