Deuteronomy 21:2 - Prayer Tents

21"If a murder victim is found lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,H4672H2491H127H3068H430H5414H3423H5307H7704H3045H5221 2your elders and judges must come out and measure [the distance] from the victim to the nearby cities.H2205H8199H3318H4058H5892H5439H2491 3The elders of the city nearest to the victim are to get a cow that has not been yoked or used for work.H5892H7138H2491H2205H5892H3947H1241H5697H5647H4900H5923 4The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break the cow's neck there by the stream.H2205H5892H3381H5697H386H5158H5647H2232H6202H5697H6202H5158 5Then the priests, the sons of Levi, will come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in the LORD's name, and they are to give a ruling in every dispute and [case of] assault.H3548H1121H3878H5066H3068H430H977H8334H1288H8034H3068H6310H7379H5061 6All the elders of the city nearest to the victim will wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken.H2205H5892H7138H2491H7364H3027H5697H6202H5158 7They will declare, 'Our hands did not shed this blood; our eyes did not see [it].H6030H559H3027H8210H1818H5869H7200 8LORD, forgive Your people Israel You redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.' Then they will be absolved of responsibility for bloodshed.H3722H3068H5971H3478H6299H5414H5355H1818H5971H3478H7130H1818H3722 9You must purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, for you will be doing what is right in the LORD's sight.H1197H5355H1818H7130H6213H3477H5869H3068 10"When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God hands them over to you and you take some of them prisoner, andH3318H4421H341H3068H430H5414H3027H7617H7628 11if you see a beautiful woman among the captives, desire her, and want to take her as your wife,H7200H7633H8389H3303H802H2836H3947H802 12you are to bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,H935H8432H1004H1548H7218H6213H6856 13remove the clothes she was wearing when she was taken prisoner, live in your house, and mourn for her father and mother a full month. After that, you may have sexual relations with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.H5493H8071H7628H3427H1004H1058H1H517H3117H3391H310H935H1166H802 14Then if you are not satisfied with her, you are to let her go where she wants, but you must not sell her for money or treat her as merchandise, because you have humiliated her.H2654H7971H5315H4376H4376H3701H6014H834H6031 15"If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved bear him sons, and if the unloved wife has the firstborn son,H376H8147H802H259H157H259H8130H3205H1121H157H8130H1060H1121H8146 16when that man gives what he has to his sons as an inheritance, he is not to show favoritism to the son of the loved [wife] as his firstborn over the firstborn of the unloved wife.H3117H1121H5157H3201H1121H157H1069H6440H1121H8130H1060 17He must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of everything that belongs to him, for he is the firstfruits of his virility; he has the rights of the firstborn.H5234H1121H8130H1060H5414H8147H6310H4672H7225H202H4941H1062 18"If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father or mother and doesn't listen to them even after they discipline him,H376H5637H4784H1121H8085H6963H1H6963H517H3256H8085 19his father and mother must take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown.H1H517H8610H3318H2205H5892H8179H4725 20They will say to the elders of his city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he doesn't obey us. He's a glutton and a drunkard.'H559H2205H5892H1121H5637H4784H8085H6963H2151H5433 21Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. You must purge the evil from you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.H582H5892H7275H68H4191H1197H7451H1197H7130H3478H8085H3372 22"If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,H376H2399H4941H4194H4191H8518H6086 23you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung [on a tree] is under God's curse. You must not defile the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.H5038H3885H6086H6912H6912H3117H8518H7045H430H127H2930H3068H430H5414H5159