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		Deut 21:1 "If someone is found slain, lying in the field, in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, and it is not known who has killed him,
		Deut 21:2 then your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the dead person.
		Deut 21:3 "It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the dead man shall take a heifer of the herd, one which has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke;
		Deut 21:4 and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a [river] valley with running water, which has not been plowed or planted, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
		Deut 21:5 "Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall approach, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the Name (Presence) of the LORD; and every dispute and every assault (violent crime) shall be settled by them.
		Deut 21:6 "All the elders of that city nearest to the dead man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;
		Deut 21:7 and they shall respond, and say, 'Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.
		Deut 21:8 'Forgive Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, O LORD, and do not put the guilt of innocent blood among Your people Israel.' And the guilt of blood shall be forgiven them.
		Deut 21:9 "So shall you remove the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.
		Deut 21:10 ¶ "When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God hands them over to you and you lead them away captive,
		Deut 21:11 and you see a beautiful woman among the captives, and desire her and would take her as your wife,
		Deut 21:12 then you shall bring her [home] to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails [in preparation for mourning].
		Deut 21:13 "She shall take off the clothes of her captivity and remain in your house, and weep (mourn) for her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.
		Deut 21:14 "But it shall be that if you have no delight and take no pleasure in her, then you shall let her go wherever she wishes. You certainly shall not sell her for money; you shall not deal with her as a slave or mistreat her, because you have humbled her [by forced marriage].
		Deut 21:15 ¶ "If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have born him sons, and the firstborn son belongs to the unloved wife,
		Deut 21:16 then on the day when he wills his possessions to his sons, he cannot treat the son of his loved wife as firstborn in place of the son of the unloved wife--the [actual] firstborn.
		Deut 21:17 "Instead he shall acknowledge the son of the unloved as the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he was the beginning of his strength (generative power); to him belongs the right of the firstborn.
		Deut 21:18 ¶ "If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or of his mother, and when they reprimand and discipline him, he will not listen to them,
		Deut 21:19 then his father and mother shall take hold of him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown.
		Deut 21:20 "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.' [Prov 23:20-22]
		Deut 21:21 "Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
		Deut 21:22 ¶ "And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death and [afterward] you hang him on a tree [as a public example], [Josh 10:26, 27]
		Deut 21:23 his body shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall most certainly bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is cursed by God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance. [Gal 3:13]

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