Deuteronomy 16:18
Justice
18“You shall appoint ajudges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment.Deuteronomy 17:5
5then you shall bring out to your gates that man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you bshall stone that man or woman to death with stones.Deuteronomy 21:19
19then 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,Deuteronomy 25:7
7And if the man does not wish to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall cgo 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.’Job 29:7
7When I went out to dthe gate of the city,when I prepared my seat in the square,
Job 31:21
21if I have raised my hand against ethe fatherless,because I saw my help in fthe gate,
Amos 5:10-12
10 gThey hate him who reproves hin the gate,and they iabhor him who speaks the truth.
11Therefore because you jtrample on ▼
▼Or you tax
the poorand you exact taxes of grain from him,
lyou have built houses of hewn stone,
but you shall not dwell in them;
myou have planted pleasant vineyards,
but you shall not drink their wine.
12For I know how many are your transgressions
and how great are your sins—
you who afflict the righteous, who ntake a bribe,
and oturn aside the needy pin the gate.
Amos 5:15
15 qHate evil, and love good,and establish justice rin the gate;
sit may be that the Lord, the God of hosts,
will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.
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