Deuteronomy 21:13 - Prayer Tents

21"If a slain person is found lying in the open country in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, [and] it is not known who has struck him,H4672H2491H127H3068H430H5414H3423H5307H7704H3045H5221 2then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure [the distance] to the cities which are around the slain one.H2205H8199H3318H4058H5892H5439H2491 3"And it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke;H5892H7138H2491H2205H5892H3947H1241H5697H5647H4900H5923 4and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.H2205H5892H3381H5697H386H5158H5647H2232H6202H5697H6202H5158 5"Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the name of the LORD; and every dispute and every assault shall be settled by them.H3548H1121H3878H5066H3068H430H977H8334H1288H8034H3068H6310H7379H5061 6"And all the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;H2205H5892H7138H2491H7364H3027H5697H6202H5158 7and they shall answer and say, 'Our hands have not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see [it.]H6030H559H3027H8210H1818H5869H7200 8'Forgive Thy people Israel whom Thou hast redeemed, O LORD, and do not place the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of Thy people Israel.' And the bloodguiltiness shall be forgiven them.H3722H3068H5971H3478H6299H5414H5355H1818H5971H3478H7130H1818H3722 9"So you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of the LORD.H1197H5355H1818H7130H6213H3477H5869H3068 10"When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands, and you take them away captive,H3318H4421H341H3068H430H5414H3027H7617H7628 11and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her and would take her as a wife for yourself,H7200H7633H8389H3303H802H2836H3947H802 12then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails.H935H8432H1004H1548H7218H6213H6856 13"She shall also remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house, and mourn her father and mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.H5493H8071H7628H3427H1004H1058H1H517H3117H3391H310H935H1166H802 14"And it shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you shall let her go wherever she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell her for money, you shall not mistreat her, because you have humbled her.H2654H7971H5315H4376H4376H3701H6014H834H6031 15"If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and [both] the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the first-born son belongs to the unloved,H376H8147H802H259H157H259H8130H3205H1121H157H8130H1060H1121H8146 16then it shall be in the day he wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the son of the loved the first-born before the son of the unloved, who is the first-born.H3117H1121H5157H3201H1121H157H1069H6440H1121H8130H1060 17"But he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; to him belongs the right of the first-born.H5234H1121H8130H1060H5414H8147H6310H4672H7225H202H4941H1062 18"If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them,H376H5637H4784H1121H8085H6963H1H6963H517H3256H8085 19then his father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his home town.H1H517H8610H3318H2205H5892H8179H4725 20"And they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey us, he is a glutton and a drunkard.'H559H2205H5892H1121H5637H4784H8085H6963H2151H5433 21"Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear [of it] and fear.H582H5892H7275H68H4191H1197H7451H1197H7130H3478H8085H3372 22"And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,H376H2399H4941H4194H4191H8518H6086 23his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance.H5038H3885H6086H6912H6912H3117H8518H7045H430H127H2930H3068H430H5414H5159