Deuteronomy 21:13 - Prayer Tents

21If a dead body is found on the ground, this ground that GOD, your God, has given you, lying out in the open, and no one knows who killed him,H4672H2491H127H3068H430H5414H3423H5307H7704H3045H5221 2your leaders and judges are to go out and measure the distance from the body to the nearest cities.H2205H8199H3318H4058H5892H5439H2491 3The leaders and judges of the city that is nearest the corpse will then take a heifer that has never been used for work, never had a yoke on it.H5892H7138H2491H2205H5892H3947H1241H5697H5647H4900H5923 4The leaders will take the heifer to a valley with a stream, a valley that has never been plowed or planted, and there break the neck of the heifer.H2205H5892H3381H5697H386H5158H5647H2232H6202H5697H6202H5158 5The Levitical priests will then step up. GOD has chosen them to serve him in these matters by settling legal disputes and violent crimes and by pronouncing blessings in GOD's name.H3548H1121H3878H5066H3068H430H977H8334H1288H8034H3068H6310H7379H5061 6Finally, all the leaders of that town that is nearest the body will wash their hands over the heifer that had its neck broken at the streamH2205H5892H7138H2491H7364H3027H5697H6202H5158 7and say, "We didn't kill this man and we didn't see who did it.H6030H559H3027H8210H1818H5869H7200 8Purify your people Israel whom you redeemed, O GOD. Clear your people Israel from any guilt in this murder." That will clear them from any responsibility in the murder.H3722H3068H5971H3478H6299H5414H5355H1818H5971H3478H7130H1818H3722 9By following these procedures you will have absolved yourselves of any part in the murder because you will have done what is right in GOD's sight.H1197H5355H1818H7130H6213H3477H5869H3068 10When you go to war against your enemies and GOD, your God, gives you victory and you take prisoners,H3318H4421H341H3068H430H5414H3027H7617H7628 11and then you notice among the prisoners of war a good-looking woman whom you find attractive and would like to marry,H7200H7633H8389H3303H802H2836H3947H802 12this is what you do: Take her home; have her trim her hair, cut her nails,H935H8432H1004H1548H7218H6213H6856 13and discard the clothes she was wearing when captured. She is then to stay in your home for a full month, mourning her father and mother. Then you may go to bed with her as husband and wife.H5493H8071H7628H3427H1004H1058H1H517H3117H3391H310H935H1166H802 14If it turns out you don't like her, you must let her go and live wherever she wishes. But you can't sell her or use her as a slave since you've humiliated her.H2654H7971H5315H4376H4376H3701H6014H834H6031 15When a man has two wives, one loved and the other hated, and they both give him sons, but the firstborn is from the hated wife,H376H8147H802H259H157H259H8130H3205H1121H157H8130H1060H1121H8146 16at the time he divides the inheritance with his sons he must not treat the son of the loved wife as the firstborn, cutting out the son of the hated wife, who is the actual firstborn.H3117H1121H5157H3201H1121H157H1069H6440H1121H8130H1060 17No, he must acknowledge the inheritance rights of the real firstborn, the son of the hated wife, by giving him a double share of the inheritance: that son is the first proof of his virility; the rights of the firstborn belong to him.H5234H1121H8130H1060H5414H8147H6310H4672H7225H202H4941H1062 18When a man has a stubborn son, a real rebel who won't do a thing his mother and father tell him, and even though they discipline him he still won't obey,H376H5637H4784H1121H8085H6963H1H6963H517H3256H8085 19his father and mother shall forcibly bring him before the leaders at the city gateH1H517H8610H3318H2205H5892H8179H4725 20and say to the city fathers, "This son of ours is a stubborn rebel; he won't listen to a thing we say. He's a glutton and a drunk."H559H2205H5892H1121H5637H4784H8085H6963H2151H5433 21Then all the men of the town are to throw rocks at him until he's dead. You will have purged the evil pollution from among you. All Israel will hear what's happened and be in awe.H582H5892H7275H68H4191H1197H7451H1197H7130H3478H8085H3372 22When a man has committed a capital crime, been given the death sentence, executed and hung from a tree,H376H2399H4941H4194H4191H8518H6086 23don't leave his dead body hanging overnight from the tree. Give him a decent burial that same day so that you don't desecrate your GOD-given land—a hanged man is an insult to God.H5038H3885H6086H6912H6912H3117H8518H7045H430H127H2930H3068H430H5414H5159