1 If one slain is found in the land that YHWH your God is giving to you to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it is not known who struck him, VP
2 then your elders and your judges shall go out, and they shall measure to the cities that [are] surrounding the slain one. VP
3 And it shall be [that] the city nearest to the slain one, the elders of that city will take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked in it [and] which has not pulled with a yoke, VP
4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to an enduring valley, which is not worked and not sown, and they shall break the neck of the heifer there in the valley. VP
5 And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near; for YHWH your God has chosen them to minister to Him and to bless in the name of YHWH, and by their mouth shall be [settled] every controversy and every assault. VP
6 And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain one shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley, VP
7 and they shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen. VP
8 Make atonement for Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, O YHWH, and do not put innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel.” And the blood shall be atoned for them. VP
9 And you shall purge the innocent blood from your midst when you do right in the eyes of YHWH. VP
10 When you go out to war against your enemies, and YHWH your God delivers him into your hand, and you have taken captive his captivity, VP
11 and you see among the captives a woman beautiful in appearance, and you have delighted in her and would take her for a wife, VP
12 then you shall bring her into the midst of your house, and she shall shave her head and do her nails, VP
13 and she shall remove the clothes of her captivity from her, and she shall dwell in your house and mourn her father and her mother a month of days. And after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be to you for a wife. VP
14 And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you send her away at her desire. And surely you shall not sell her for silver, nor shall you treat her brutally, upon that you have humbled her. VP
15 If a man has two wives, the one loved and the one hated, and they have borne to him sons, the loved and the hated, and the firstborn son is to the hated, VP
16 then it shall come to pass on the day he assigns his inheritance to his sons that are to him, he is not able to make firstborn the son of the loved one over the face of the son of the hated one, the firstborn. VP
17 But the firstborn son of the hated one he shall acknowledge by giving to him a double portion of all that is found to him, for he [is] the beginning of his strength; to him [is] the right of the firstborn. VP
18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not listen to the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and they have disciplined him and he will not listen to them, VP
19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his city, VP
20 and they shall say to the elders of his city, “Our son, this one, is stubborn and rebellious; he will not listen to our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.” VP
21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones to death; and you shall put away the evil from among you, and all Israel shall listen and fear. VP
22 And if a man has committed a sin deserving of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, VP
23 his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the day—for cursed of God [is] he who is hanged [on a tree]—so that you do not defile the land that YHWH your God is giving to you [as] an inheritance. VP