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Deuteronomy 21 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Atonement for Innocent Blood

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“If a slain person is found fallen in the open country in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to [fn]possess, and it is not known who has struck him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - “And it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 - and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and they shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:5 - “Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to minister for Him and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and every dispute and every [fn]assault [fn]shall be settled by them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:6 - “And all the elders of that city [fn]who are nearest to 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 did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:8 - ‘Atone for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, O Yahweh, and do not place the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel.’ And the bloodguiltiness shall be atoned for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:9 - “So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

Statutes About Domestic Relations

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“If you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God gives them over into your hands and you take them away captive,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:11 - and see among the captives a beautiful woman and set your affection on her and would take her as a wife for yourself,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:12 - then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and [fn]trim her nails.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:13 - “She shall also [fn]remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house and weep for her father and mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:14 - “And it will be that, if you do not desire her, then you shall let her go [fn]wherever she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell her for money; you shall not [fn]mistreat her because you have humbled her.

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“If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other [fn]unloved, and both the loved and the [fn]unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the [fn]unloved,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:16 - then it shall be in the day he [fn]wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the son of the loved the firstborn before the son of the [fn]unloved, who is the firstborn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:17 - “But he shall recognize the firstborn, the son of the [fn]unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that [fn]he has, for he is the first of his vigor; the legal judgment for the firstborn belongs to him.

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“If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they discipline him, he will not even listen to them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - then his father and mother shall seize him and bring him out to the elders of his city [fn]at the gateway of his hometown.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:20 - “Then they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not listen to our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:21 - “Then all the men of his city shall stone him, and he will die; so you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear of it and fear.

A Man Hanged on a Tree Is Cursed

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“And if a man has committed a sin, the judgment of which is death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (because cursed of God is he who is hanged), so that you do not make unclean your land which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance.
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Lit possess it
Lit stroke
Lit shall be according to their mouth
Lit which is
Lit do
Lit remove from her
Lit according to her soul
Or enslave
Lit hated
Lit hated
Lit hated
Lit makes to inherit
Lit hated
Lit hated
Lit is found with him
Lit and to the gate of his place
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