'Gate' in the Bible

his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

Then the father and mother of the young woman must produce the evidence of virginity for the elders of the city at the gate.

you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor's fianc?e; in this way you will purge evil from among you.

But if the man does not want to marry his brother's widow, then she must go to the elders at the town gate and say, "My husband's brother refuses to preserve his brother's name in Israel; he is unwilling to perform the duty of a brother-in-law to me!"