Deuteronomy 21:7-23 ▼

7 and they shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen it.

8 Receive atonement for Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, O YHWH, and lay not innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel.” And for the blood atonement shall be provided to them.

9 And you shall remove the innocent blood from among you when you do right in the eyes of YHWH.

10 When you go out to war against your enemies, and YHWH your God delivers them into your hand, and you have taken captive its captivity,

11 and you see among the captives a woman beautiful in appearance, and you have delighted in her and would take her as your wife,

12 you shall bring her into the midst of your household, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails,

13 and she shall remove the clothes of her captivity from her and remain in your house and mourn her father and her mother a full month. And after that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be to you wife.

14 And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, that 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.

15 If a man has two wives, one loved and one hated, and they have borne to him sons, the loved and the hated, and the firstborn son is to the hated one,

16 then it shall come to pass on the day he assigns his inheritance to his sons that are to him, that he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife over the face of the son of the hated one, the firstborn.

17 But the firstborn son of the hated wife he shall acknowledge by giving 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.

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,

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,

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.”

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.

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,

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.