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4 And let the Elders of that citie bring the heifer him out vnto the Elders of his citie, and vnto the
vnto a stonie valley, which is neyther eared nor gate of the place where he dwelleth, 20 And shall
sowen, and strike off the heifers necke there in say vnto the Elders of his citie, This our sonne is
the valley. 5 Also the Priests the sonnes of Leui stubburne and disobedient, and he wil not obey
(whom the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister, our admonition: he is a riotour, and a drunkard.
and to blesse in the name of the Lord) shall come 21 Then all the men of his citie shall stone him
forth, and by their word shall all strife and plague with stones vnto death: so thou shalt take away
be tried. 6 And all the Elders of that citie that euill from among you, that all Israel may heare
came neere to the slayne man, shall wash their it, and feare. 22 If a man also haue committed a
hands ouer the heifer that is beheaded in the trespasse worthy of death, and is put to death,
valley: 7 And shall testifie, and say, Our handes and thou hangest him on a tree, 23 His body shall
haue not shed this blood, neither haue our eies not remaine all night vpon the tree, but thou
seene it. 8 O Lord, be mercifull vnto thy people shalt bury him the same day: for the curse of
Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay no God is on him that is hanged. Defile not therfore
innocent blood to the charge of thy people Israel, thy land which the Lord thy God giueth thee to
and the blood shalbe forgiuen them. 9 So shalt inherite.
thou take away the cry of innocet blood from
thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in 22
the sight of the Lord. 10 Whe thou shalt go to 1 Thou shalt not see thy brothers oxe nor
warre against thine enemies, and the Lord thy his sheepe go astray, and withdraw thy selfe
God shall deliuer them into thine hands, and from them, but shalt bring the againe vnto thy
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thou shalt take the captiues, 11 And shalt see brother. And if thy brother bee not neere vnto
among the captiues a beautifull woman, and hast thee, or if thou knowe him not, then thou shalt
a desire vnto her, and wouldest take her to thy bring it into thine house, and it shall remaine
wife, 12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine with thee, vntill thy brother seeke after it: then
house, and she shall shaue her head, and pare shalt thou deliuer it to him againe. 3 In like
her nayles, 13 And she shall put off the garment maner shalt thou do with his asse, and so shalt
that shee was taken in, and she shall remaine thou do with his rayment, and shalt so doe with
in thine house, and bewaile her father and her all lost things of thy brother, which he hath
mother a moneth long: and after that shalt thou lost: if thou hast found them, thou shalt not
go in vnto her, and marry her, and she shalbe withdraw thy selfe from them. 4 Thou shalt not
thy wife. 14 And if thou haue no fauour vnto see thy brothers asse nor his oxe fal downe by
her, then thou mayest let her go whither she will, the way, and withdrawe thy selfe from them, but
but thou shalt not sell her for money, nor make shalt lift them vp with him. 5 The woman shall
marchandise of her, because thou hast humbled not weare that which perteineth vnto the man,
her. 15 If a man haue two wiues, one loued neither shall a man put on womans rayment: for
and another hated, and they haue borne him all that doe so, are abomination vnto the Lord
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children, both the loued and also the hated: if thy God. If thou finde a birdes nest in the way,
the first borne be the sonne of the hated, 16 Then in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be
when the time commeth, that hee appointeth yong or egges, and the damme sitting vpon the
his sonnes to be heires of that which he hath, yong, or vpon the egges, thou shalt not take ye
he may not make the sonne of the beloued first 7
borne before the sonne of the hated, which is damme with the yong, But shalt in any wise
the first borne: 17 But he shall acknowledge the let the damme go, and take the yong to thee,
sonne of the hated for the first borne, and giue that thou mayest prosper and prolong thy dayes.
him double portion of all that he hath: for hee 8 When thou buildest a newe house, thou shalt
is the first of his strength, and to him belongeth make a battlemet on thy roofe, that thou lay not
blood vpon thine house, if any man fal thence.
the right of the first borne. 18 If any man haue a 9
sonne that is stubburne and disobedient, which Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with diuers
wil not hearken vnto the voice of his father, nor kinds of seedes, lest thou defile the increase of
the voyce of his mother, and they haue chastened the seede which thou hast sowen, and the fruite
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him, and he would not obey them, 19 Then shall of the vineyarde. Thou shalt not plow with an
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his father and his mother take him, and bring oxe and an asse together. Thou shalt not weare
a garment of diuers sorts, as of woollen and linen