Graphic Bible · Scene 24 of 29

An empty city-gate court is seen from above, with stone benches along its sides.
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Deuteronomy 22:24

The Severe Command at the Gate

Care for What Is Lost and Hear the Household Judgments · Deuteronomy 22

Story guide: The empty gate court accompanies the severe command and stated reasons for the city case.

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24then you shall bring both of them out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them with stones, and they shall die: the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

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