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Deuteronomy 21
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21If, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, a body is found lying in open country, and it is not known who struck the person down,H4672H2491H127H3068H430H5414H3423H5307H7704H3045H5221 2then your elders and your judges shall come out to measure the distances to the towns that are near the body.H2205H8199H3318H4058H5892H5439H2491 3The elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked, one that has not pulled in the yoke;H5892H7138H2491H2205H5892H3947H1241H5697H5647H4900H5923 4the elders of that town shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the wadi.H2205H5892H3381H5697H386H5158H5647H2232H6202H5697H6202H5158 5Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to him and to pronounce blessings in the name of the LORD, and by their decision all cases of dispute and assault shall be settled.H3548H1121H3878H5066H3068H430H977H8334H1288H8034H3068H6310H7379H5061 6All the elders of that town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi,H2205H5892H7138H2491H7364H3027H5697H6202H5158 7and they shall declare: "Our hands did not shed this blood, nor were we witnesses to it.H6030H559H3027H8210H1818H5869H7200 8Absolve, O LORD, your people Israel, whom you redeemed; do not let the guilt of innocent blood remain in the midst of your people Israel." Then they will be absolved of bloodguilt.H3722H3068H5971H3478H6299H5414H5355H1818H5971H3478H7130H1818H3722 9So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, because you must do what is right in the sight of the LORD.H1197H5355H1818H7130H6213H3477H5869H3068 10When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God hands them over to you and you take them captive,H3318H4421H341H3068H430H5414H3027H7617H7628 11suppose you see among the captives a beautiful woman whom you desire and want to marry,H7200H7633H8389H3303H802H2836H3947H802 12and so you bring her home to your house: she shall shave her head, pare her nails,H935H8432H1004H1548H7218H6213H6856 13discard her captive's garb, and shall remain in your house a full month, mourning for her father and mother; after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.H5493H8071H7628H3427H1004H1058H1H517H3117H3391H310H935H1166H802 14But if you are not satisfied with her, you shall let her go free and not sell her for money. You must not treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.H2654H7971H5315H4376H4376H3701H6014H834H6031 15If a man has two wives, one of them loved and the other disliked, and if both the loved and the disliked have borne him sons, the firstborn being the son of the one who is disliked,H376H8147H802H259H157H259H8130H3205H1121H157H8130H1060H1121H8146 16then on the day when he wills his possessions to his sons, he is not permitted to treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the disliked, who is the firstborn.H3117H1121H5157H3201H1121H157H1069H6440H1121H8130H1060 17He must acknowledge as firstborn the son of the one who is disliked, giving him a double portion of all that he has; since he is the first issue of his virility, the right of the firstborn is his.H5234H1121H8130H1060H5414H8147H6310H4672H7225H202H4941H1062 18If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father and mother, who does not heed them when they discipline him,H376H5637H4784H1121H8085H6963H1H6963H517H3256H8085 19then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the gate of that place.H1H517H8610H3318H2205H5892H8179H4725 20They shall say to the elders of his town, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard."H559H2205H5892H1121H5637H4784H8085H6963H2151H5433 21Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. So you shall purge the evil from your midst; and all Israel will hear, and be afraid.H582H5892H7275H68H4191H1197H7451H1197H7130H3478H8085H3372 22When someone is convicted of a crime punishable by death and is executed, and you hang him on a tree,H376H2399H4941H4194H4191H8518H6086 23his corpse must not remain all night upon the tree; you shall bury him that same day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God's curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you for possession.H5038H3885H6086H6912H6912H3117H8518H7045H430H127H2930H3068H430H5414H5159


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