Help QuickNav Adv. Options
NET

NET

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Deuteronomy 21 :: New English Translation (NET)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:1 - If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:2

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:2 - your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:3 - Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked - that has never pulled with the yoke -

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:4

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:4 - and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown. There at the wadi they are to break the heifer's neck.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:5 - Then the Levitical priests will approach (for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name, and to decide every judicial verdict)

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:6

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:6 - and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:7 - Then they must proclaim, "Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we witnessed the crime.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:8 - Do not blame your people Israel whom you redeemed, O LORD, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person." Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:9

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:9 - In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before the LORD.

Domestic Relations

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:10 - When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the LORD your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:11 - if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:12 - you may bring her back to your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:13 - discard the clothing she was wearing when captured, and stay in your house, lamenting for her father and mother for a full month. After that you may have sexual relations with her and become her husband and she your wife.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:14 - If you are not pleased with her, then you must let her go where she pleases. You cannot in any case sell her; you must not take advantage of her, since you have already humiliated her.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:15 - Suppose a man has two wives, one whom he loves more than the other, and they both bear him sons, with the firstborn being the child of the less loved wife.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:16 - In the day he divides his inheritance he must not appoint as firstborn the son of the favorite wife in place of the other wife's son who is actually the firstborn.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:17 - Rather, he must acknowledge the son of the less loved wife as firstborn and give him the double portion of all he has, for that son is the beginning of his father's procreative power - to him should go the right of the firstborn.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:18 - If a person has a stubborn, rebellious son who pays no attention to his father or mother, and they discipline him to no avail,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:19

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:19 - his father and mother must seize him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his city.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:20

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:20 - They must declare to the elders of his city, "Our son is stubborn and rebellious and pays no attention to what we say - he is a glutton and drunkard."

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:21

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:21 - Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:22 - If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse on a tree,

Tools

Unchecked Copy Box Deu 21:23

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:23 - his body must not remain all night on the tree; instead you must make certain you bury him that same day, for the one who is left exposed on a tree is cursed by God. You must not defile your land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
NET

The NET Bible®, New English Translation Copyright © 1996 By Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. NET Bible® is a registered trademark The NET Bible® Logo, Service Mark Copyright © 1997 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. All rights reserved.

Full copyright information is provided here. Visit the NET Bible website.

Pericope

Pericope taken from the NASB95 and has been graciously provided by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved.

New American Standard Bible
Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995
by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif.
All rights reserved.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
NET
  [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
NET
Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Deuteronomy Chapter 21 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras