And when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you approached me, all the heads of your tribes and your elders.

then the elders of his city shall send men and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the one who was killed.

And it shall be that the city which is nearest to the person killed, that is, that the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd that has not been worked and has not pulled in a yoke;

and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and they shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

And all the elders of that city which is nearest to the person killed shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

then his father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.

And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us, he is thoughtless and given to drinking.’

then the girl’s father and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of the girl’s virginity to the elders of the city at the gate.

And the girl’s father shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man as a wife, but he turned against her;

and behold, he has charged her with shameful behavior, saying, “I did not find your daughter to have evidence of virginity.” But this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread out the garment before the elders of the city.

Then the elders of that city shall take the man and rebuke him,

But if the man does not desire to take his brother’s widow, then his brother’s widow shall go up to the gate to the elders, and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name for his brother in Israel; he is not willing to perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’

Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak to him. And if he persists and says, ‘I do not desire to take her,’

then his brother’s widow shall come up to him in the sight of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot and spit in his face; and she shall declare, ‘This is what is done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house!’

The Curses at Mount Ebal

Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandments which I am commanding you today.

“You stand today, all of you, before the Lord your God: your heads, your tribes, your elders and your officers, that is, all the men of Israel,

So Moses wrote this Law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and to all the elders of Israel.

Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes and your officers, that I may speak these words in their hearing and call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against them.

Remember the days of old, Consider the years of all generations. Ask your father and he will inform you, Your elders, and they will tell you.