21IF ONE is found slain in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it is not known who has killed him,H4672H2491H127H3068H430H5414H3423H5307H7704H3045H5221 2Then your elders and judges shall come forth and measure the distance to the cities around him who is slain.H2205H8199H3318H4058H5892H5439H2491 3And the city which is nearest to the slain man, the elders of that city shall take a heifer which has never been worked, never pulled in the yoke,H5892H7138H2491H2205H5892H3947H1241H5697H5647H4900H5923 4And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.H2205H5892H3381H5697H386H5158H5647H2232H6202H5697H6202H5158 5And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister to Him and to bless in the name [and presence] of the Lord, and by their word shall every controversy and every assault be settled.H3548H1121H3878H5066H3068H430H977H8334H1288H8034H3068H6310H7379H5061 6And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,H2205H5892H7138H2491H7364H3027H5697H6202H5158 7And they shall testify, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.H6030H559H3027H8210H1818H5869H7200 8Forgive, O Lord, Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not allow the shedding of innocent blood to be charged to Your people Israel. And the guilt of blood shall be forgiven them.H3722H3068H5971H3478H6299H5414H5355H1818H5971H3478H7130H1818H3722 9So shall you purge the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.H1197H5355H1818H7130H6213H3477H5869H3068 10When you go forth to battle against your enemies and the Lord your God has given them into your hands and you carry them away captive,H3318H4421H341H3068H430H5414H3027H7617H7628 11And you see among the captives a beautiful woman and desire her, that you may have her as your wife,H7200H7633H8389H3303H802H2836H3947H802 12Then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and pare her nails [in purification from heathenism]H935H8432H1004H1548H7218H6213H6856 13And put off her prisoner's garb, and shall remain in your house and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.H5493H8071H7628H3427H1004H1058H1H517H3117H3391H310H935H1166H802 14And if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go absolutely free. You shall not sell her at all for money; you shall not deal with her as a slave {or} a servant, because you have humbled her.H2654H7971H5315H4376H4376H3701H6014H834H6031 15If a man has two wives, one loved and the other disliked, and they both have borne him children, and if the firstborn son is the son of the one who is disliked,H376H8147H802H259H157H259H8130H3205H1121H157H8130H1060H1121H8146 16Then on the day when he wills his possessions to his sons, he shall not put the firstborn of his loved wife in place of the [actual] firstborn of the disliked wife--her firstborn being older.H3117H1121H5157H3201H1121H157H1069H6440H1121H8130H1060 17But he shall acknowledge the son of the disliked as the firstborn by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he was the first issue of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.H5234H1121H8130H1060H5414H8147H6310H4672H7225H202H4941H1062 18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or his mother and though they chasten him will not listen to them,H376H5637H4784H1121H8085H6963H1H6963H517H3256H8085 19Then his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives,H1H517H8610H3318H2205H5892H8179H4725 20And they shall say to the elders of his city, This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.H559H2205H5892H1121H5637H4784H8085H6963H2151H5433 21Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall cleanse out the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear and [reverently] fear.H582H5892H7275H68H4191H1197H7451H1197H7130H3478H8085H3372 22And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death and [afterward] you hang him on a tree,H376H2399H4941H4194H4191H8518H6086 23His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day, for a hanged man is accursed by God. Thus you shall not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.H5038H3885H6086H6912H6912H3117H8518H7045H430H127H2930H3068H430H5414H5159
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