21"If in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess someone is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him,H4672H2491H127H3068H430H5414H3423H5307H7704H3045H5221

2then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.H2205H8199H3318H4058H5892H5439H2491

3And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer that has never been worked and that 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 is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.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 bless in the name of the LORD, and by their word every dispute and every assault shall 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 did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it shed.H6030H559H3027H8210H1818H5869H7200

8Accept atonement, O LORD, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.'H3722H3068H5971H3478H6299H5414H5355H1818H5971H3478H7130H1818H3722

9So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.H1197H5355H1818H7130H6213H3477H5869H3068

10"When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive,H3318H4421H341H3068H430H5414H3027H7617H7628

11and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife,H7200H7633H8389H3303H802H2836H3947H802

12and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails.H935H8432H1004H1548H7218H6213H6856

13And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament 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

14But if you no longer delight in her, you shall let her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you treat her as a slave, since you have humiliated 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 children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,H376H8147H802H259H157H259H8130H3205H1121H157H8130H1060H1121H8146

16then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn,H3117H1121H5157H3201H1121H157H1069H6440H1121H8130H1060

17but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.H5234H1121H8130H1060H5414H8147H6310H4672H7225H202H4941H1062

18"If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them,H376H5637H4784H1121H8085H6963H1H6963H517H3256H8085

19then his father and his 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 our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.'H559H2205H5892H1121H5637H4784H8085H6963H2151H5433

21Then all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel shall hear, and fear.H582H5892H7275H68H4191H1197H7451H1197H7130H3478H8085H3372

22"And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,H376H2399H4941H4194H4191H8518H6086

23his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not defile your land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.H5038H3885H6086H6912H6912H3117H8518H7045H430H127H2930H3068H430H5414H5159