~Deuteronomy 21:1 If one be found slain in the land which Jehovahthy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be notknown who hath smitten him;
~Deuteronomy 21:2 then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth,and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him thatis slain:
~Deuteronomy 21:3 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest untothe slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of theherd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn inthe yoke;
~Deuteronomy 21:4 and the elders of that city shall bring down theheifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither plowed norsown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
~Deuteronomy 21:5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near;for them Jehovah thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and tobless in the name of Jehovah; and according to their word shall everycontroversy and every stroke be.
~Deuteronomy 21:6 And all the elders of that city, who are nearestunto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neckwas broken in the valley;
~Deuteronomy 21:7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands havenot shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
~Deuteronomy 21:8 Forgive, O Jehovah, thy people Israel, whomthou hast redeemed, and suffer not innocent blood [to remain] in themidst of thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
~Deuteronomy 21:9 So shalt thou put away the innocent blood fromthe midst of thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes ofJehovah.
~Deuteronomy 21:10 When thou goest forth to battle against thineenemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, andthou carriest them away captive,
~Deuteronomy 21:11 and seest among the captives a beautifulwoman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to theeto wife;
~Deuteronomy 21:12 then thou shalt bring her home to thy house;and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
~Deuteronomy 21:13 and she shall put the raiment of her captivityfrom off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father andher mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, andbe her husband, and she shall be thy wife.
~Deuteronomy 21:14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her,then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell herat all for money, thou shalt not deal with her as a slave, because thouhast humbled her.
~Deuteronomy 21:15 If a man have two wives, the one beloved, andthe other hated, and they have borne him children, both the belovedand the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;
~Deuteronomy 21:16 then it shall be, in the day that he causeth hissons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son ofthe beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn:
~Deuteronomy 21:17 but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the sonof the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; for heis the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.
~Deuteronomy 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son,that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother,and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;
~Deuteronomy 21:19 then shall his father and his mother lay hold onhim, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gateof his place;
~Deuteronomy 21:20 and they shall say unto the elders of his city,This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; heis a glutton, and a drunkard.
~Deuteronomy 21:21 And all the men of his city shall stone him todeath with stones: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst ofthee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
~Deuteronomy 21:22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy ofdeath, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree;
~Deuteronomy 21:23 his body shall not remain all night upon thetree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that ishanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land whichJehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance
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