Deuteronomy:21

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* When [one ] is found dead in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit , lying in the field , [and ] it is not known who has slain him , * then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth , and they shall measure unto the cities which [are ] round about him that is dead ; * and it shall be [that ] the elders of the city [which ] is next unto the dead man shall take a heifer , which has not served , [and ] which has not drawn in the yoke ; * and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley , which has neither been plowed nor sown , and shall strike off the heifer 's neck there in the valley . * And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near ; for the LORD thy God has chosen them to minister unto him and to bless in the name of the LORD ; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be determined . * And all the elders of that closest city next to the dead [man ] shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley . * And they shall answer and say , Our hands have not shed this blood , neither have our eyes seen [it ]. * Reconcile thy people Israel , whom thou hast ransomed , O LORD , and impute not the innocent blood shed in the midst of thy people Israel . And the blood shall be forgiven them . * 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 . * When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies , and the LORD thy God has delivered them into thine hands , and thou hast taken them captive , * and seest among the captives a beautiful woman and hast a desire unto her that thou would have her to thy wife , * then thou shalt bring her home to thine house , and she shall shave her head and pare her nails , * and she shall put off the clothing of her captivity 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 . * And it shall be , if thou have no delight in her , then thou shalt let her go free , but thou shalt not sell her at all for money ; thou shalt not make merchandise of her because thou hast humbled her . * When a man has two wives , one beloved and the other hated , and they have born him sons , [both ] the beloved and the hated ; and [if ] the firstborn son is of the one that was hated , * then it shall be , when he makes his sons to inherit [that ] which he has , [that ] he may not give the right of the firstborn unto the son of the beloved in preference over the son of the hated , [who is indeed ] the firstborn ; * but he shall acknowledge the son of the hated [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 . * When anyone has a stubborn and rebellious son , who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother and when they have chastened him , will not hearken unto them , * 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 ; * and they shall say unto the elders of his city , This our son [is ] stubborn and rebellious ; he will not hear our voice ; [he is ] a glutton and a drunkard . * Then all the men of his city shall stone him with stones , and he shall die ; so shalt thou put evil away from among you ; and all Israel shall hear and fear . * And when a man shall have committed a sin worthy of death , and he is to be put to death , and thou shall have hung him on a tree , * his body shall not remain all night upon the tree , but thou shalt without fail bury him that same day (for he that is hanged [is ] accursed of God ) that thy land not be defiled , which the LORD thy God gives thee [for ] an inheritance .:

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