A GATE — and, in Deuteronomy, a TOWN. The gate of a walled settlement was where its life happened: the market, the court, the elders’ bench, the place a case was heard and a deal witnessed. So ‘within your gates’ comes to mean not the doorway but everything inside it, the way ‘within your walls’ once did in English. Deuteronomy 12 leans on it hard — meat may be eaten bi-she’arekha (vv15, 17, 21), the tithe may not, and the Levite who has no land of his own is three times ‘the Levite who is within your gates’ (vv12, 18, 19), a man defined by living inside someone else’s town. ⚠ The modern revisions translate the meaning and lose the image: the NWT 1984’s ‘inside your gates’ becomes ‘within your cities’ in its 2013 revision, and the TNM 1987’s «tus puertas» becomes «tus ciudades» in 2019 — accurate as a gloss, but it dissolves the connection to the doorposts and gates the Shema tells Israel to write on (Deuteronomy 6:9, 11:20, both already on these pages), which is the same word. → first discussed at Deut 12:15