| New American Standard Bible 1995 | International Standard Version |
| 1"If a slain person is found lying in the open country in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, and it is not known who has struck him, | 1"If a murder victim is found fallen in the open country of the land that the LORD your God is about to give you to possess, and it is not known who killed him, |
| 2then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one. | 2then let your elders and judges go out and measure the distance from the dead body to the neighboring cities. |
| 3"It shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke; | 3Then the elders of the city nearest the body are to take a heifer that hasn't been put to work or hasn't pulled a yoke |
| 4and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. | 4and are to lead the heifer to a flowing stream in a valley that has never been tilled or planted. They are to break the heifer's neck there. |
| 5"Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the name of the LORD; and every dispute and every assault shall be settled by them. | 5Then the priests of the sons of Levi are to step forward, because the LORD your God chose them to serve and pronounce blessings in his name. Every case of dispute and assault is to be subject to their ruling. |
| 6"All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; | 6All the elders of the city nearest the dead body are to wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley, |
| 7and they shall answer and say, 'Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it. | 7and they are to make this declaration: 'Our hands didn't shed this blood, nor were we witnesses to the crime. |
| 8'Forgive Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, O LORD, and do not place the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel.' And the bloodguiltiness shall be forgiven them. | 8Make atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, LORD, and don't charge the blood of an innocent man against them.' Then the blood shed will be atoned for. |
| 9"So you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of the LORD. | 9This is how you will remove the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right in the sight of the LORD." |
| 10"When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take them away captive, | 10"If you go to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your control, you may take some prisoners captive. |
| 11and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her and would take her as a wife for yourself, | 11If you see among the prisoners a beautiful woman and you desire her, then you may take her as your wife. |
| 12then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails. | 12Bring her to your house, but shave her head and trim her nails. |
| 13"She shall also remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house, and mourn her father and mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. | 13Remove her prisoner's clothing and let her remain for a month in your house, mourning her parents. After that, you may become her husband and she is to become your wife. |
| 14"It shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you shall let her go wherever she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell her for money, you shall not mistreat her, because you have humbled her. | 14If you aren't pleased with her and you send her away, you must not sell her for money or mistreat her, since you will have dishonored her." |
| 15"If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, | 15"If a man has two wives where one is loved but the other is unloved, and both of them bear him sons, but the firstborn is the son of the unloved wife, |
| 16then it shall be in the day he wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the son of the loved the firstborn before the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn. | 16then when he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, he must not give preference to the firstborn of the beloved wife over the firstborn of the unloved wife. |
| 17"But he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; to him belongs the right of the firstborn. | 17Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn of the unloved wife by giving him double of everything he owns, because he is really the first fruit of his father's strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him." |
| 18"If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them, | 18"If a man has a stubborn son who does not obey his parents, and although they try to discipline him, he still refuses to pay attention to them, |
| 19then his father and mother shall seize him, and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gateway of his hometown. | 19then his parents are to seize him and bring him before the elders at the gate of his city. |
| 20"They shall say to the elders of his city, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey us, he is a glutton and a drunkard.' | 20Then they are to declare to the elders of their city: 'Our son is stubborn and rebellious. He does not obey us. He lives wildly and is a drunkard.' |
| 21"Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel will hear of it and fear. | 21Then all the men of his city are to stone him with stones so that he dies. This is how you will remove this evil from among you. Then all Israel will hear of it and will be afraid." |
| 22"If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, | 22"If a man is guilty of a capital offense, is executed, and then is impaled on a tree, |
| 23his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (for he who is hanged is accursed of God), so that you do not defile your land which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance. | 23his body must not remain overnight on the tree. You must bury him that same day, because cursed of God is the one who has been hanged on a tree. Don't defile your land that the LORD is about to give you as your inheritance." |
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