Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
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 ,
If one be
found slain in the land which
the LORD thy
God giveth
thee
to possess it
, lying
in
the
field,
and it be
not known who hath
slain
him :
your
elders and judges must
come out
and measure the
distance
from
the
victim
to
the neighboring
cities .
Then
thy
elders and thy
judges shall
come forth,
and they
shall
measure unto
the cities which
are
round
about
him
that
is
slain:
Then
the elders of the
city nearest
the
victim
shall take a
heifer that
has
never
been yoked
or
used
for
work
,
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;
bring the heifer to
a valley with
running
water
that
has
not
been
plowed
or
sown, and break
its
neck there by
the stream.
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:
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.
And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near;
for them
the LORD thy
God hath
chosen to minister
unto
him ,
and to
bless
in the
name of
the
LORD;
and by
their
word
shall
every controversy
and every
stroke
be
tried:
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,
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 declare
, “
Our hands did
not shed this blood, nor
did
our eyes see
it.
And they shall answer
and
say
, Our hands have
not shed this blood, neither
have
our eyes seen
it.
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
.
Be
merciful
, O LORD, 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
.
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.
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 LORD.
When you
go
to war against your
enemies and the LORD your
God delivers
them into your
hand
and you
take
them captive,
When thou
goest
forth
to war against thine
enemies ,
and the LORD thy
God hath
delivered
them into thine
hands,
and thou
hast
taken
them captive,
if
you
see
a beautiful woman among
them
, and you
desire her and
want
to
take
her as
your
wife ,
And
seest
among
the
captives
a beautiful woman, and hast
a
desire unto
her ,
that
thou
wouldest
have
her to
thy
wife ;
then you
shall
bring her into
your
house .
She must
shave her head, trim
her nails ,
Then thou
shalt
bring her home
to
thine
house ,
and
she shall
shave her head, and
pare
her nails ;
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 ,
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:
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.
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:
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
.
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
.
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
,
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:
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,
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;
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. ”
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.
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
.
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
.
If a man has
committed a sin worthy of death, and he is
executed
, and you
hang his
body
on a tree ,
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 :
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.
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 LORD thy
God giveth
thee
for
an inheritance.
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