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Deuteronomy 21
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21"If a murder victim is found fallen in the open country of the land that the Lord your God is about to give you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,H4672H2491H127H3068H430H5414H3423H5307H7704H3045H5221
2then let your elders and judges go out and measure the distance from the dead body to the neighboring cities.H2205H8199H3318H4058H5892H5439H2491
3Then the elders of the city nearest the body are to take a heifer that hasn't been put to work or hasn't pulled a yokeH5892H7138H2491H2205H5892H3947H1241H5697H5647H4900H5923
4and shall lead the heifer to a flowing stream in a valley that has never been tilled or planted. They shall break the heifer's neck there.H2205H5892H3381H5697H386H5158H5647H2232H6202H5697H6202H5158
5"Then the priests of the sons of Levi will step forward, because the Lord your God chose them to serve and pronounce blessings in his name. Every case of dispute and assault shall be subject to their ruling.H3548H1121H3878H5066H3068H430H977H8334H1288H8034H3068H6310H7379H5061
6All the elders of the city nearest the dead body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,H2205H5892H7138H2491H7364H3027H5697H6202H5158
7and they are to make this declaration: 'Our hands didn't shed this blood, nor were we witnesses to the crime.H6030H559H3027H8210H1818H5869H7200
8Make atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, Lord, and don't charge the blood of an innocent man against them.' Then the blood shed will be atoned for.H3722H3068H5971H3478H6299H5414H5355H1818H5971H3478H7130H1818H3722
9This is how you will remove the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right in the sight of the Lord."8H1197H5355H1818H7130H6213H3477H5869H3068
10"If you go to battle against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your control, you may take some prisoners captive.H3318H4421H341H3068H430H5414H3027H7617H7628
11If you see among the prisoners a beautiful woman and you desire her, then you may take her as your wife.H7200H7633H8389H3303H802H2836H3947H802
12Bring her to your house, but shave her head and trim her nails.H935H8432H1004H1548H7218H6213H6856
13Remove her prisoner's clothing and let her remain for a month in your house, mourning her parents. After that, you may become her husband and she shall become your wife.H5493H8071H7628H3427H1004H1058H1H517H3117H3391H310H935H1166H802
14If you aren't pleased with her and you send her away, you must not sell her for money or mistreat her, since you have dishonored her."2111H2654H7971H5315H4376H4376H3701H6014H834H6031
15"If a man has two wives where one is loved but the other is unloved, and both of them bear him sons, but the firstborn is the son of the unloved wife,H376H8147H802H259H157H259H8130H3205H1121H157H8130H1060H1121H8146
16then when he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, he must not give preference to the firstborn of the beloved wife over the firstborn of the unloved wife.H3117H1121H5157H3201H1121H157H1069H6440H1121H8130H1060
17Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn of the unloved wife by giving him double of everything he owns, because he is really the first fruit of his father's strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him."H5234H1121H8130H1060H5414H8147H6310H4672H7225H202H4941H1062
18"If a man has a stubborn son who does not obey his parents, and although they try to discipline him, he still refuses to pay attention to them,H376H5637H4784H1121H8085H6963H1H6963H517H3256H8085
19then his parents shall seize him and bring him before the elders at the gate of his city.H1H517H8610H3318H2205H5892H8179H4725
20Then they are to declare to the elders of their city: 'Our son is stubborn and rebellious. He does not obey us. He lives wildly and is a drunkard.'H559H2205H5892H1121H5637H4784H8085H6963H2151H5433
21Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones so that he dies. This is how you will remove this evil from among you. Then all Israel will hear of it and will be afraid."H582H5892H7275H68H4191H1197H7451H1197H7130H3478H8085H3372
22"If a man is guilty of a capital offense, is executed, and then is impaled on a tree,H376H2399H4941H4194H4191H8518H6086
23his body must not remain overnight on the tree. You must bury him that same day, because cursed of God is the one who has been hanged on a tree. Don't defile your land that the Lord is about to give you as your inheritance."H5038H3885H6086H6912H6912H3117H8518H7045H430H127H2930H3068H430H5414H5159


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