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

the young woman’s father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the city elders at the gate.

you must take the two of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s fiancée. You must purge the evil from you.

But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she must go to the elders at the city gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.’

May the bolts of your gate be iron and bronze,
and your strength last as long as you live.