Deuteronomy 21:18-20

Common English Bible

Rebellious children

¹⁸ Now if someone has a consistently stubborn and rebellious child, who refuses to listen to their father and mother—even when the parents discipline him, he won’t listen to them— ¹⁹ the father and mother will take the son before the elders of that city at its gates. ²⁰ Then they will inform the city’s elders: “This son of ours is consistently stubborn and rebellious, refusing to listen to us. What’s more, he’s wild and a drunkard.”