“And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,”
So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city to speak to the fellow citizens. The gate of the city is the legal and public forum — the same forum where Abraham purchased Machpelah in Genesis 23. The application: the city gate is where public decisions are made, witnessed, and ratified. Hamor and Shechem are doing everything in proper public form.
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