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Elders Wash Their Hands Over a Heifer
by emmanuel_higgins
21
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7
Deuteronomy 21:7
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1
If
one
be
found slain in the land which the
L
ORD
thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field,
and
it be not known who hath slain him:
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:
3
And it shall be,
that
the city
which is
next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with,
and
which hath not drawn in the yoke;
4
And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:
5
And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the
L
ORD
thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the
L
ORD
; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be
tried:
6
And all the elders of that city,
that are
next unto the slain
man
, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen
it
.
8
Be merciful, O
L
ORD
, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel’s charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
9
So shalt thou put away the
guilt of
innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do
that which is
right in the sight of the
L
ORD
.
10
When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the
L
ORD
thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,
11
And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
12
Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
13
And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine 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.
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 make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
15
If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children,
both
the beloved and the hated; and
if
the firstborn son be hers that was hated:
16
Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit
that
which he hath,
that
he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated,
which is indeed
the firstborn:
17
But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated
for
the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he
is
the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn
is
his.
18
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and
that
, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
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;
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.
21
And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
22
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
23
His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged
is
accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the
L
ORD
thy God giveth thee
for
an inheritance.
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