{"book":"Deuteronomy","slug":"deuteronomy","ch":21,"genre":"prose","sub":"Deuteronomy","prev":"deuteronomy/20","next":"deuteronomy/22","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"If [one] is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,","f":[],"h":"Atonement for an Unsolved Murder","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.","f":[]},{"v":3,"t":"Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":4,"t":"bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, {and break} its neck there by the stream.","f":[]},{"v":5,"t":"And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name and to give a ruling in every dispute and case of assault.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":6,"t":"Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,","f":[]},{"v":7,"t":"and they shall declare,“ Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.","f":[]},{"v":8,"t":"Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"","t":"Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.”"},{"style":"reg","t":"And the bloodshed will be atoned for."}],"style":"reg"},{"v":9,"t":"So you shall purge from among you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.","f":[]},{"v":10,"t":"When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive,","f":[],"h":"Marrying a Captive Woman","style":"reg"},{"v":11,"t":"if you see a beautiful woman among [them], and you desire her and want to take her as your wife,","f":[]},{"v":12,"t":"then you shall bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,","f":[]},{"v":13,"t":"and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"","t":"and put aside the clothing of her captivity."},{"style":"reg","t":"After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife."}],"style":"reg"},{"v":14,"t":"And if you are not pleased with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.","f":[]},{"v":15,"t":"If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and [both] bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,","f":[],"h":"Inheritance Rights of the Firstborn","style":"reg"},{"v":16,"t":"when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over [the son] of the unloved wife.","f":[]},{"v":17,"t":"Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For [that son] is the firstfruits of his [father’s] strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":18,"t":"If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,","f":[],"h":"A Rebellious Son","style":"reg"},{"v":19,"t":"his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,","f":[]},{"v":20,"t":"and say to the elders,“ This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”","f":[]},{"v":21,"t":"Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.","f":["Cited in 1 Corinthians 5:13"],"style":"reg"},{"v":22,"t":"If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,","f":["Or impale his body on a pole; similarly in verse 23"],"h":"Cursed Is Anyone Hung on a Tree","style":"reg"},{"v":23,"t":"you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung [on a tree] is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.","f":["LXX; Hebrew anyone who is hanged is under God’s curse; cited in Galatians 3:13"]}]}