Each of these towns was fortified with high walls, double gates, and crossbars. Outside the towns there were also a great number of villages.

Write them on your house’s doorframes and on your city’s gates.

Write them on your house’s doorframes and on your city’s gates.

Every third year you must bring the tenth part of your produce from that year and leave it at your city gates.

then you must bring out the man or woman who has done this evil thing to the gates of the city. Stone that person until he or she is dead.

the father and mother will take the son before the elders of that city at its gates.

you must bring both of them to the city gates there and stone them until they die—the young woman because she didn’t call for help in the city, and the man because of the fact that he humiliated his neighbor’s wife. Remove such evil from your community!