21:1 "If
in
the
land
that
the
LORD
your
God
is
giving
you
to
possess
someone
is
found
slain,
lying
in
the
open
country,
and
it
is
not
known
who
killed
him,
21:2 then
your
elders
and
your
judges
shall
come
out,
and
they
shall
measure
the
distance
to
the
surrounding
cities.
21:3 And
the
elders
of
the
city
that
is
nearest
to
the
slain
man
shall
take
a
heifer
that
has
never
been
worked
and
that
has
not
pulled
in
a
yoke.
21:4 And
the
elders
of
that
city
shall
bring
the
heifer
down
to
a
valley
with
running
water,
which
is
neither
plowed
nor
sown,
and
shall
break
the
heifer's
neck
there
in
the
valley.
21:5 Then
the
priests,
the
sons
of
Levi,
shall
come
forward,
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
every
dispute
and
every
assault
shall
be
settled.
21:6 And
all
the
elders
of
that
city
nearest
to
the
slain
man
shall
wash
their
hands
over
the
heifer
whose
neck
was
broken
in
the
valley,
21:7 and
they
shall
testify,
'Our
hands
did
not
shed
this
blood,
nor
did
our
eyes
see
it
shed.
21:8 Accept
atonement,
O
LORD,
for
your
people
Israel,
whom
you
have
redeemed,
and
do
not
set
the
guilt
of
innocent
blood
in
the
midst
of
your
people
Israel,
so
that
their
blood
guilt
be
atoned
for.'
21:9 So
you
shall
purge
the
guilt
of
innocent
blood
from
your
midst,
when
you
do
what
is
right
in
the
sight
of
the
LORD.
21:10 "When
you
go
out
to
war
against
your
enemies,
and
the
LORD
your
God
gives
them
into
your
hand
and
you
take
them
captive,
21:11 and
you
see
among
the
captives
a
beautiful
woman,
and
you
desire
to
take
her
to
be
your
wife,
21:12 and
you
bring
her
home
to
your
house,
she
shall
shave
her
head
and
pare
her
nails.
21:13 And
she
shall
take
off
the
clothes
in
which
she
was
captured
and
shall
remain
in
your
house
and
lament
her
father
and
her
mother
a
full
month.
After
that
you
may
go
in
to
her
and
be
her
husband,
and
she
shall
be
your
wife.
21:14 But
if
you
no
longer
delight
in
her,
you
shall
let
her
go
where
she
wants.
But
you
shall
not
sell
her
for
money,
nor
shall
you
treat
her
as
a
slave,
since
you
have
humiliated
her.
21:15 "If
a
man
has
two
wives,
the
one
loved
and
the
other
unloved,
and
both
the
loved
and
the
unloved
have
borne
him
children,
and
if
the
firstborn
son
belongs
to
the
unloved,
21:16 then
on
the
day
when
he
assigns
his
possessions
as
an
inheritance
to
his
sons,
he
may
not
treat
the
son
of
the
loved
as
the
firstborn
in
preference
to
the
son
of
the
unloved,
who
is
the
firstborn,
21:17 but
he
shall
acknowledge
the
firstborn,
the
son
of
the
unloved,
by
giving
him
a
double
portion
of
all
that
he
has,
for
he
is
the
firstfruits
of
his
strength.
The
right
of
the
firstborn
is
his.
21:18 "If
a
man
has
a
stubborn
and
rebellious
son
who
will
not
obey
the
voice
of
his
father
or
the
voice
of
his
mother,
and,
though
they
discipline
him,
will
not
listen
to
them,
21:19 then
his
father
and
his
mother
shall
take
hold
of
him
and
bring
him
out
to
the
elders
of
his
city
at
the
gate
of
the
place
where
he
lives,
21:20 and
they
shall
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.'
21:21 Then
all
the
men
of
the
city
shall
stone
him
to
death
with
stones.
So
you
shall
purge
the
evil
from
your
midst,
and
all
Israel
shall
hear,
and
fear.
21:22 "And
if
a
man
has
committed
a
crime
punishable
by
death
and
he
is
put
to
death,
and
you
hang
him
on
a
tree,
21:23 his
body
shall
not
remain
all
night
on
the
tree,
but
you
shall
bury
him
the
same
day,
for
a
hanged
man
is
cursed
by
God.
You
shall
not
defile
your
land
that
the
LORD
your
God
is
giving
you
for
an
inheritance.