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Deuteronomy 21
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21If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who the killer was,H4672H2491H127H3068H430H5414H3423H5307H7704H3045H5221 2your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns.H2205H8199H3318H4058H5892H5439H2491 3Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yokeH5892H7138H2491H2205H5892H3947H1241H5697H5647H4900H5923 4and lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer's neck.H2205H5892H3381H5697H386H5158H5647H2232H6202H5697H6202H5158 5The priests, the sons of Levi, shall step forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the LORD and to decide all cases of dispute and assault.H3548H1121H3878H5066H3068H430H977H8334H1288H8034H3068H6310H7379H5061 6Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,H2205H5892H7138H2491H7364H3027H5697H6202H5158 7and they shall declare: "Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done.H6030H559H3027H8210H1818H5869H7200 8Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, LORD, and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent person." And the bloodshed will be atoned for.H3722H3068H5971H3478H6299H5414H5355H1818H5971H3478H7130H1818H3722 9So you will purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.H1197H5355H1818H7130H6213H3477H5869H3068 10When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives,H3318H4421H341H3068H430H5414H3027H7617H7628 11if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.H7200H7633H8389H3303H802H2836H3947H802 12Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nailsH935H8432H1004H1548H7218H6213H6856 13and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.H5493H8071H7628H3427H1004H1058H1H517H3117H3391H310H935H1166H802 14If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.H2654H7971H5315H4376H4376H3701H6014H834H6031 15If someone has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love,H376H8147H802H259H157H259H8130H3205H1121H157H8130H1060H1121H8146 16when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love.H3117H1121H5157H3201H1121H157H1069H6440H1121H8130H1060 17He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father's strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.H5234H1121H8130H1060H5414H8147H6310H4672H7225H202H4941H1062 18If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him,H376H5637H4784H1121H8085H6963H1H6963H517H3256H8085 19his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town.H1H517H8610H3318H2205H5892H8179H4725 20They shall say to the elders, "This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard."H559H2205H5892H1121H5637H4784H8085H6963H2151H5433 21Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.H582H5892H7275H68H4191H1197H7451H1197H7130H3478H8085H3372 22If anyone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole,H376H2399H4941H4194H4191H8518H6086 23you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God's curse. You must not desecrate the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.H5038H3885H6086H6912H6912H3117H8518H7045H430H127H2930H3068H430H5414H5159


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