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Deuteronomy 21 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:1 - If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath smitten him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 - and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:5 - And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Jehovah thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:6 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:7 - and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:8 - Forgive, O Jehovah, 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:9 - 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 Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:10 - When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:11 - and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:12 - then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:13 - 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 shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:14 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:15 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:16 - 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 the first-born:

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:17 - 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 beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:18 - If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey 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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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:20 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:21 - And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:22 - 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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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - 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 accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
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Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Deuteronomy Chapter 21 — Additional Translations:

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