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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: |
2 | 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; |
4 | 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: |
5 | 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: |
6 | 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: |
7
| 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, |
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; |
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.
Gal 3:13
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