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20 The parents must say to the elders, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious and refuses to obey. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’ 21 Then all the men of his town must stone him to death. In this way, you will purge this evil from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.

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22 “If someone has committed a crime worthy of death and is executed and hung on a tree,[a]

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  1. 21:22 Or impaled on a pole; similarly in 21:23.

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