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Expiation
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| Deuteronomy 21:1 |
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"If a slain person is found lying in the open
country in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, and it is not
known who has struck him, |
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| Deuteronomy 21:2 |
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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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| Deuteronomy 21:3 |
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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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| Deuteronomy 21:4 |
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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 shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. |
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| Deuteronomy 21:5 |
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Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come
near, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the name
of the LORD; and every dispute and every assault shall be settled by them. |
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| Deuteronomy 21:6 |
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All the elders of that city which is nearest
to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken
in the valley; |
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| Deuteronomy 21:7 |
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and they shall answer and say, 'Our hands did
not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it. |
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| Deuteronomy 21:8 |
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Forgive Your people Israel whom You have redeemed,
O LORD, and do not place the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of Your people
Israel.' And the bloodguiltiness shall be forgiven them. |
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| Deuteronomy 21:9 |
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So you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood
from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of the LORD. |
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Domestic
Relations |
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| Deuteronomy 21:10 |
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"When you go out to battle against your enemies,
and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take them away captive, |
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| Deuteronomy 21:11 |
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and see among the captives a beautiful woman,
and have a desire for her and would take her as a wife for yourself, |
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| Deuteronomy 21:12 |
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then you shall bring her home to your house,
and she shall shave her head and trim her nails. |
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| Deuteronomy 21:13 |
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She shall also remove the clothes of her captivity
and shall remain in your house, and mourn 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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| Deuteronomy 21:14 |
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It shall be, if you are not pleased with her,
then you shall let her go wherever she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell
her for money, you shall not mistreat her, because you have humbled her. |
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| Deuteronomy 21:15 |
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"If a man has two wives, the one loved and
the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if
the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, |
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| Deuteronomy 21:16 |
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then it shall be in the day he wills what he
has to his sons, he cannot make the son of the loved the firstborn before the
son of the unloved, who is the firstborn. |
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| Deuteronomy 21:17 |
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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 beginning of his strength; to him belongs the right of the firstborn. |
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| Deuteronomy 21:18 |
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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 chastise him, he will
not even listen to them, |
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| Deuteronomy 21:19 |
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then his father and mother shall seize him,
and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown. |
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| Deuteronomy 21:20 |
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They shall say to the elders of his city, 'This
son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey us, he is a glutton and
a drunkard.' |
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| Deuteronomy 21:21 |
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Then all the men of his city shall stone him
to death; so you shall remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear
of it and fear. |
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| Deuteronomy 21:22 |
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"If a man has committed a sin worthy of death
and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, |
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| Deuteronomy 21:23 |
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his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree,
but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed
of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you
as an inheritance. |
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