8 Provide atonement, O Lord, for Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, aand do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel.’ And atonement shall be provided on their behalf for the blood.
9 So ayou shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.
Female Captives
10 “When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your hand, and you take them captive,
11 and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and desire her and would take her for your awife,
12 then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall ashave her head and trim her nails.
13 She shall put off the clothes of her captivity, remain in your house, and amourn 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.
14 And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall set her free, but you certainly shall not sell her for money; you shall not treat her brutally, because you have ahumbled her.
Firstborn Inheritance Rights
15 “If a man has two wives, one loved aand the other unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved, and if the firstborn son is of her who is unloved,
16 then it shall be, aon the day he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, that he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife in preference to the son of the unloved, the true firstborn.
17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the firstborn aby giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he bis the beginning of his strength; cthe right of the firstborn is his.
The Rebellious Son
18 “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 who, when they have chastened him, will not heed them,
19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, to the gate of his city.
20 And they shall say to the elders of his city, ‘This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.’
21 Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones; aso you shall put away the evil from among you, band all Israel shall hear and fear.
Miscellaneous Laws
22 “If a man has committed a sin adeserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
23 ahis body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that byou do not defile the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance; for che who is hanged is accursed of God.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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Robertson's Book Notes (NT)
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