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1 If [one] be found slain in the land which the LORD [Yahweh] your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it be not known who has slain him:
2 Then your elders and your judges will come forth, and they will measure to the cities which [are] round about him that is slain:
3 And it will be, [that] the city [which is] next to the slain man, even the elders of that city will take a heifer, which has not been wrought with, [and] which has not drawn in the yoke;
4 And the elders of that city will bring down the heifer to a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and will strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:
5 And the priests the sons of Levi will come near; for them the LORD [Yahweh] your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the LORD [Yahweh]; and by their word will every controversy and every stroke be [tried]:
6 And all the elders of that city, [that are] next to the slain [man], will wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
7 And they will answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen [it].
8 Be merciful, O LORD [Yahweh], to your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and lay not innocent blood to your people of Israel's charge. And the blood will be forgiven them.
9 So will you put away the [guilt of] innocent blood from among you, when you will do [that which is] right in the sight of the LORD [Yahweh].
10 When you go forth to war against your enemies, and the LORD [Yahweh] your God has delivered them into your hands, and you have taken them captive,
11 And see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire to her, that you would have her to your wife;
12 Then you will bring her home to your house; and she will shave her head, and pare her nails;
13 And she will put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and will remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you will go in to her, and be her husband, and she will be your wife.
14 And it will be, if you have no delight in her, then you will let her go where she will; but you will not sell her at all for money, you will not make merchandise of her, because you have 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 will be, when he makes his sons to inherit [that] which he has, [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 will acknowledge the son of the hated [for] 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.
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 listen to them:
19 Then will his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place;
20 And they will say to 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 will stone him with stones, that he die: so will you put evil away from among you; and all Israel will hear, and fear.
22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and you hang him on a tree:
23 His body will not remain all night upon the tree, but you will in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged [is] accursed of God;) that your land be not defiled, which the LORD [Yahweh] your God gives you [for] an inheritance.