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Deuteronomy 21
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The Law Concerning Unsolved Murder

21"If anyone is found slain, lying in the field in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,H4672H2491H127H3068H430H5414H3423H5307H7704H3045H5221 2"then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance from the slain man to the surrounding cities.H2205H8199H3318H4058H5892H5439H2491 3"And it shall be that the elders of the city nearest to the slain man will take a heifer which has not been worked and which has not pulled with a yoke.H5892H7138H2491H2205H5892H3947H1241H5697H5647H4900H5923 4"The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with flowing water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and they 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 minister to Him and to bless in the name of the LORD; by their word every controversy and every assault shall be settled.H3548H1121H3878H5066H3068H430H977H8334H1288H8034H3068H6310H7379H5061 6"And 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 7"Then they shall answer and say, 'Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it.H6030H559H3027H8210H1818H5869H7200 8'Provide atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel.' And atonement shall be provided on their behalf for the blood.H3722H3068H5971H3478H6299H5414H5355H1818H5971H3478H7130H1818H3722 9"So you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.H1197H5355H1818H7130H6213H3477H5869H3068

Female Captives

10"When you go out to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand, and you take them captive,H3318H4421H341H3068H430H5414H3027H7617H7628 11"and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and desire her and would take her for your wife,H7200H7633H8389H3303H802H2836H3947H802 12"then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails.H935H8432H1004H1548H7218H6213H6856 13"She shall put off the clothes of her captivity, remain in your house, and mourn 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 14"And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall set her free, but you certainly shall not sell her for money; you shall not treat her brutally, because you have humbled her.H2654H7971H5315H4376H4376H3701H6014H834H6031

Firstborn Inheritance Rights

15"If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved, and if the firstborn son is of her who is unloved,H376H8147H802H259H157H259H8130H3205H1121H157H8130H1060H1121H8146 16"then it shall be, on the day he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, that he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife in preference to the son of the unloved, the true firstborn.H3117H1121H5157H3201H1121H157H1069H6440H1121H8130H1060 17"But he shall acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.H5234H1121H8130H1060H5414H8147H6310H4672H7225H202H4941H1062

The Rebellious Son

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 who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them,H376H5637H4784H1121H8085H6963H1H6963H517H3256H8085 19"then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city.H1H517H8610H3318H2205H5892H8179H4725 20"And they shall say to the elders of his city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.'H559H2205H5892H1121H5637H4784H8085H6963H2151H5433 21"Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; so you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.H582H5892H7275H68H4191H1197H7451H1197H7130H3478H8085H3372

Miscellaneous Laws

22"If a man has committed a sin deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,H376H2399H4941H4194H4191H8518H6086 23"his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that you do not defile the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed of God.H5038H3885H6086H6912H6912H3117H8518H7045H430H127H2930H3068H430H5414H5159


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