And when you heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, you came near to me, all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

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

then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure the distance to the cities which are around him that is slain;

and the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer which has never been worked and which has not pulled in the yoke.

And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,

and they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’

then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the tokens of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate;

and the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to wife, and he spurns her;

and lo, he has made shameful charges against her, saying, “I did not find in your daughter the tokens of virginity.” And yet these are the tokens of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the garment before the elders of the city.

Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him;

And if the man does not wish 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 perpetuate his brother’s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’

Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak to him: and if he persists, saying, ‘I do not wish to take her,’

then his brother’s wife shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, and pull his sandal off his foot, and spit in his face; and she shall answer and say, ‘So shall it be done to the man who does not build up his brother’s house.’

The Inscribed Stones and Altar on Mount Ebal

Now Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, “Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.

“You stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; the heads of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,

The Law to Be Read Every Seventh Year

And 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 ears and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you; your elders, and they will tell you.