Chapter 21
1 If [one] be found slain in the land which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) you i God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] gives you i to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it be not known who has slain him:
2 Then you i elders and you i shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which [are] round about him that is slain:
3 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 has not been wrought with, [and] which has not drawn in the yoke;
4 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:
5 And the priests the sons of Levi (Levite) [Adhesion, Joiner] shall come near; for them the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) you i God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) ; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be [tried] :
6 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:
7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen [it] .
8 Be merciful, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) , unto you i people Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] , whom you i have redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto you i people of Yisra’el’s [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.
9 So shall you i put away the [guilt of] innocent blood from among you, when you i shall do [that which is] right in the sight of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .
10 When you i go forth to war against you i enemies, and the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) you i God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has delivered them into you i hands, and you i have taken them captive,
11 And see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire unto her, that you i would have her to you i wife;
12 Then you i shall bring her home to you i house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;
13 And she shall put the clothing of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in you i house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that you i shall go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be you i wife.
14 And it shall be, if you i have no delight in her, then you i shall let her go to which she will; but you i shall not sell her at all for money, you i shall not make merchandise of her, because you i have humbled her.
15 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:
16 Then it shall be, when he makes his sons to inherit [that] which he has, [that] he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, [which is indeed] the firstborn:
17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated [for] the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he has: for he [is] the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn [is] his.
18 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:
19 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;
20 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.
21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shall you i put evil away from among you; and all Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] shall hear, and fear.
22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and you i hang him on a tree:
23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but you i shall in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged [is] accursed of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] ;) that you i land be not defiled, which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) you i God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] gives you i [for] an inheritance.