1 GLT If one slain is found in the land that Yahweh your God is giving to you to possess it, fallen in the field,{ and} it is not known who has struck him, BSB BSB: 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,
2 GLT then your elders and your judges shall go out, and they shall measure to the cities that surround the slain. BSB BSB: your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.
3 GLT And it will be, the town nearest to the slain, and the elders of that town shall take a heifer of the herd, one that has not been put to work, which has not drawn a yoke. BSB BSB: Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,
4 GLT And the elders of that city shall cause the heifer to descend to a valley with running water, that has not been worked in, nor sown, and there they shall break the neck of the heifer in the valley. BSB BSB: bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.
5 GLT And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to serve him and give blessing in the name of Yahweh, and upon their mouth is every dispute and every assault. BSB BSB: 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.
6 GLT And all the elders of that city, the nearest one to the slain, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; BSB BSB: 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,
7 GLT and they shall respond and say,‘Our hands have not spilled this blood, and our eyes have not seen{ it}. BSB BSB: and they shall declare, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.
8 GLT Cover, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and you will not put the blood of the innocent in the midst of your people Israel.’ And the blood will be covered for them. BSB BSB: 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.
9 GLT And you shall remove the blood of the innocent from your midst, when you do right in the eyes of Yahweh. BSB BSB: 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.
10 GLT When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God gives them into your hands and you deport it{ as} captive, BSB BSB: When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive,
11 GLT and you see among the captives a woman of beautiful form, and you desire her and take for yourself as a wife, BSB BSB: if you see a beautiful woman among them, and you desire her and want to take her as your wife,
12 GLT then you shall bring her to the midst of your house. And she shall shave her head and do her nails, BSB BSB: then you shall bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,
13 GLT and she shall remove the clothes of her captivity from upon her, and she shall live in your house and weep{ for} her father and her mother a month of days. And afterwards, you shall go in to her and marry her, and she shall be your wife. BSB BSB: 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.
14 GLT And it will be, if you do not delight in her, then you shall send her to her desires, but you surely shall not sell her for money, you shall not mistreat her in return for humiliating her. BSB BSB: 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.
16 GLT then it will be, on the day he causes his sons to inherit what he has, he shall not{ make} the son of the beloved as the firstborn upon the face of the son of the hated, the firstborn. BSB BSB: 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.
17 GLT But, he shall recognize the firstborn, the son of the hated, giving to him a double portion of all that is found of his; for he{ is} the beginning of his strength; the regulation of the firstborn{ is} his. BSB BSB: 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.
18 GLT 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 they chastise him, but he will not listen to them, BSB BSB: 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,
19 GLT then his father and his mother shall seize him and bring him to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place. BSB BSB: 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,
20 GLT And they shall say to the elders of his city,‘This son of ours{ is} stubborn and rebellious; he will not listen to our voice;{ he is} a glutton and a drunkard.’ BSB BSB: 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.”
21 GLT And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; and you shall remove the evil from among you. And all Israel will hear and fear. BSB BSB: 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.
22 GLT And if a man has sinned, a judgment of{ which is} death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, BSB BSB: If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
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