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Cleansing for Unsolved Murder
“When you are in the land the LORD your God is giving you, someone may be found murdered in a field, and you don’t know who committed the murder.
“When you are in the land the LORD your God is giving you, someone may be found murdered in a field, and you don’t know who committed the murder.
Atonement for Unsolved Murders
“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,
“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,
In such a case, your elders and judges must measure the distance from the site of the crime to the nearby towns.
then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.
When the nearest town has been determined, that town’s elders must select from the herd a heifer that has never been trained or yoked to a plow.
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.
They must lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and that has a stream running through it. There in the valley they must break the heifer’s neck.
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.
Then the Levitical priests must step forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister before him and to pronounce blessings in the LORD’s name. They are to decide all legal and criminal cases.
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.
“The elders of the town must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken.
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,
Then they must say, ‘Our hands did not shed this person’s blood, nor did we see it happen.
and they shall testify, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it shed.
O LORD, forgive your people Israel whom you have redeemed. Do not charge your people with the guilt of murdering an innocent person.’ Then they will be absolved of the guilt of this person’s blood.
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.’
By following these instructions, you will do what is right in the LORD’s sight and will cleanse the guilt of murder from your community.
So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.
Marriage to a Captive Woman
“Suppose you go out to war against your enemies and the LORD your God hands them over to you, and you take some of them as captives.
Marrying Female Captives
“When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive,
“When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive,
And suppose you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her and want to marry her.
and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife,
If this happens, you may take her to your home, where she must shave her head, cut her nails,
and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails.
and change the clothes she was wearing when she was captured. She will stay in your home, but let her mourn for her father and mother for a full month. Then you may marry her, and you will be her husband and she will be your wife.
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.
But if you marry her and she does not please you, you must let her go free. You may not sell her or treat her as a slave, for you have humiliated her.
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.
Rights of the Firstborn
“Suppose a man has two wives, but he loves one and not the other, and both have given him sons. And suppose the firstborn son is the son of the wife he does not love.
When the man divides his inheritance, he may not give the larger inheritance to his younger son, the son of the wife he loves, as if he were the firstborn son.
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,
He must recognize the rights of his oldest son, the son of the wife he does not love, by giving him a double portion. He is the first son of his father’s virility, and the rights of the firstborn belong to him.
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.
Dealing with a Rebellious Son
“Suppose a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or mother, even though they discipline him.
A Rebellious Son
“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,
“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,
In such a case, the father and mother must take the son to the elders as they hold court at the town gate.
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,
The parents must say to the elders, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious and refuses to obey. He is a glutton and a drunkard.’
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.’
Then all the men of his town must stone him to death. In this way, you will purge this evil from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.
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.
A Man Hanged on a Tree Is Cursed
“And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
“And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
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.