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Deuteronomy 21
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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:
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- Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and
they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
- 3
- 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;
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed
this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
- 8
- 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.
- 9
- 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,
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- 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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- 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.
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- 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:
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- 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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