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| [1]If one be found slain in the land which 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath smitten him; |
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| [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. |
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| [3]And it shall be, that the city which is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke. |
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| [4]And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which may neither be plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. |
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| [5]And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near—for them 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 thy God hath chosen to minister unto Him, and to bless in the name of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be. |
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| [6]And all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. |
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| [7]And they shall speak and say: 'Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. |
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| [8]Forgive, O 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇, Thy people Israel, whom Thou hast redeemed, and suffer not innocent blood to remain in the midst of Thy people Israel.' And the blood shall be forgiven them. |
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| [9]So shalt thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇. |
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| [10]When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive, |
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| [11]And seest among the captives a woman of goodly form, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife; |
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| [12]Then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; |
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| [13]And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month; and after that thou mayest go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. |
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| [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 deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her. |
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| [15]If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated; |
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| [16]Then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is first-born; |
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| [17]But he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; for he is the first-fruits of his strength, the right of the first-born is his. |
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| [18]If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not hearken to the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them; |
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| [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; |
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| [20]And they shall say unto the elders of his city: 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he doth not hearken to our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.' |
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| [21]And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die; so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear. |
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| [22]And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree; |
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| [23]His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is a reproach unto God; that thou defile not thy land which 𐤉𐤇𐤅𐤇 thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. |
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