Thematic Bible: Held at the gates
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then his father and his mother shall take hold of him, and they shall bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his {town},
"You shall appoint judges and officials for you in all your {towns} that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you throughout your tribes, and you shall render [for] the people {righteous judgments}.
Then Hamor and his son Shechem came to the gate of their city, and they spoke to the men of their city, saying,
His children are far from deliverance, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is no deliverer--