Holman Christian Standard Bible

Deuteronomy 21:18-22 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

18. “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn’t listen to them even after they discipline him,

19. his father and mother must take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown.

20. They will say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he doesn’t obey us. He’s a glutton and a drunkard.’

21. Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. You must purge the evil from you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

22. “If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,