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If one be
found slain in the land which the Lord thy God
giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field,
and it be not known who hath slain him:
02 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come
forth, and they shall measure unto the cities
which are round about him that is slain:
03 And it shall be, that the city which is next
unto the slain man, even the elders of that city
shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought
with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;
04 And the elders of that city shall bring down
the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither
eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's
neck there in the valley:
05 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come
near; for them the Lord thy God hath chosen to
minister unto him, and to bless in the name of
the Lord; and by their word shall every
controversy and every stroke be tried:
06 And all the elders of that city, that are next
unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over
the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
07 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have
not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen
it.
08 Be merciful, O Lord, unto thy people Israel,
whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent
blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the
blood shall be forgiven them.
09 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent
blood from among you, when thou shalt do that
which is right in the sight of the Lord.
10 When thou goest forth to war against thine
enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them
into thine hands, and thou hast taken them
captive,
11 And seest among the captives a beautiful
woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou
wouldest have her to thy wife;
12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house,
and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
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13 And she shall put the raiment
of her captivity from off her, and shall remain
in thine house, and bewail her father and her
mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go
in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be
thy wife.
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 her at all for money,
thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because
thou hast humbled her.
15 If a man have two wives, one beloved, and
another hated, and they have born him children,
both the beloved and the hated; and if the
firstborn son be hers that was hated:
16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to
inherit that which he hath, that he may not make
the son of the beloved firstborn before the son
of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:
17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated
for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion
of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of
his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son,
which will not obey the voice of his father, or
the voice of his mother, and that, when they have
chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold
on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his
city, and unto the gate of his place;
20 And they shall say unto the elders of his
city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he
will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a
drunkard.
21 And all the men of his city shall stone him
with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil
away from among you; and all Israel shall hear,
and fear.
22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of
death, and he be to be put to death, and thou
hang him on a tree:
23 His body shall not remain all night upon the
tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that
day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;)
that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy
God giveth thee for an inheritance.
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