Deuteronomy:21

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* If [one ] is found dead in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess it , lying in the field , and it is not known who has killed him , * then your elders and your judges shall come forth . And they shall measure to the cities which [are ] around him who is dead . * And it shall be , the city nearest to the slain one , even the elders of that city shall take a heifer which has not been worked with , which has not drawn in the yoke . * And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to an ever-flowing stream , which is neither plowed nor sown , and shall strike off the heifer 's neck there in the stream . * And the priests , the sons of Levi , shall come near . For the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to him , and to bless in the name of the LORD , and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be [tried ]. * And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain one , shall wash their hands over the heifer that has been beheaded in the stream . * And they shall answer and say , Our hands have not shed this blood , neither have our eyes seen . * Be merciful , O LORD , to Your people Israel , whom You have redeemed , and do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel . And the blood shall be forgiven them . * So you shall put away innocent blood from among you , when you do the right in the sight of the LORD . * When you go forth to war against your enemies , and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands and you have taken them captive , * and see among the captives a beautiful woman , and have a desire to her , that you would take [her ] for your wife , * then you shall bring her home to your house . And she shall shave her head and dress her nails . * And she shall put off the clothing of her captivity , and shall remain in your house , and shall sorrow for her father and her mother a full month . And after that you shall go in to her and be her husband , and she shall be your wife . * And it shall be , if you have no delight in her , then you shall let her go where she will . But you shall not sell her at all for silver , you shall not make a slave of her , because you have humbled her . * If a man has two wives , one beloved and another hated , and they have borne him sons , the beloved and the hated ; and [if ] the first-born son was of her that was hated , * then it shall be in the day when he makes his sons to inherit what he has , he may not cause to [inherit ] the son of the beloved first-born before the son of the hated one , he who [is truly ] the first-born . * But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated as the first-born by giving him a double portion of all that he has . For he [is ] the beginning of his strength . The right of the first-born is his . * If a man has a son who is stubborn and rebels , who will not obey his father 's voice or his mother 's voice , even when they have chastened him [he ] will not listen to them , * then his father and his mother shall lay hold on him and bring him out to the elders of his city , and to the gate of his place . * And they shall say to the elders of his city , this son of ours [is ] stubborn and rebellious . He will not obey our voice . [He is ] a glutton and a drunkard . * And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones so that he dies . So shall you put evil away from you , and all Israel shall hear and fear . * And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death , and if he is put to death and you hang him on a tree , * his body shall not remain all night on the tree . But you shall surely bury him that day (for he that [is ] hanged is accursed of God ), so that your land may not be defiled , which the LORD your God gives you [for ] an inheritance .

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