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bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved
MARCH 30 wife in preference to the son of the unloved,
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the true firstborn. But he shall acknowledge
the son of the unloved wife as the firstborn by
giving him a double portion of all that he has,
Deuteronomy 21:1–22:30
for he is the beginning of his strength; the
“If anyone is found slain, lying in the field right of the firstborn is his.
21in the land which the LORD your God is 18 “If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son
giving you to possess, and it is not known who who will not obey the voice of his father or the
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killed him, then your elders and your judges voice of his mother, and who, when they have
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shall go out and measure the distance from the chastened him, will not heed them, then his
slain man to the surrounding cities. And it father and his mother shall take hold of him
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shall be that the elders of the city nearest to and bring him out to the elders of his city, to
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the slain man will take a heifer which has not the gate of his city. And they shall say to the
been worked and which has not pulled with a elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn
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yoke. The elders of that city shall bring the and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he
heifer down to a valley with flowing water, is a glutton and a drunkard.’ Then all the
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which is neither plowed nor sown, and they men of his city shall stone him to death with
shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley. stones; so you shall put away the evil from
5 Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come among you, and all Israel shall hear and fear.
near, for the LORD your God has chosen them to 22 “If a man has committed a sin deserving of
minister to Him and to bless in the name of the death, and he is put to death, and you hang him
LORD; by their word every controversy and on a tree, his body shall not remain over-
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every assault shall be settled. And all the elders night on the tree, but you shall surely bury
of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash him that day, so that you do not defile the land
their hands over the heifer whose neck was bro- which the LORD your God is giving you as an
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ken in the valley. Then they shall answer and inheritance; for he who is hanged is accursed
say, ‘Our hands have not shed this blood, nor of God.
have our eyes seen it. Provide atonement, O “You shall not see your brother’s ox or
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LORD, for Your people Israel, whom You have 22 his sheep going astray, and hide yourself
redeemed, and do not lay innocent blood to the from them; you shall certainly bring them back
charge of Your people Israel.’ And atonement to your brother. And if your brother is not near
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shall be provided on their behalf for the blood. you, or if you do not know him, then you shall
9 So you shall put away the guilt of innocent bring it to your own house, and it shall remain
blood from among you when you do what is with you until your brother seeks it; then you
right in the sight of the LORD. shall restore it to him. You shall do the same
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10 “When you go out to war against your ene- with his donkey, and so shall you do with his
mies, and the LORD your God delivers them into garment; with any lost thing of your brother’s,
your hand, and you take them captive, and you which he has lost and you have found, you shall
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see among the captives a beautiful woman, and do likewise; you must not hide yourself.
desire her and would take her for your wife, 4 “You shall not see your brother’s donkey or
12 then you shall bring her home to your house, his ox fall down along the road, and hide your-
and she shall shave her head and trim her nails. self from them; you shall surely help him lift
13 She shall put off the clothes of her captivity, them up again.
remain in your house, and mourn her father 5 “A woman shall not wear anything that per-
and her mother a full month; after that you may tains to a man, nor shall a man put on a
go in to her and be her husband, and she shall woman’s garment, for all who do so are an
be your wife. And it shall be, if you have no abomination to the LORD your God.
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delight in her, then you shall set her free, but 6 “If a bird’s nest happens to be before you
you certainly shall not sell her for money; you along the way, in any tree or on the ground,
shall not treat her brutally, because you have with young ones or eggs, with the mother sit-
humbled her. ting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not
15 “If a man has two wives, one loved and the take the mother with the young; you shall
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other unloved, and they have borne him chil- surely let the mother go, and take the young
dren, both the loved and the unloved, and if for yourself, that it may be well with you and
the firstborn son is of her who is unloved, that you may prolong your days.
16 then it shall be, on the day he bequeaths his 8 “When you build a new house, then you shall
possessions to his sons, that he must not make a parapet for your roof, that you may not
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