< Deuteronomy 21 >
1 for to find slain: killed in/on/with land: soil which LORD God your to give: give to/for you to/for to possess: take her to fall: kill in/on/with land: country not to know who? to smite him
If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,
2 and to come out: come old: elder your and to judge you and to measure to(wards) [the] city which around [the] slain: killed
your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.
3 and to be [the] city [the] near to(wards) [the] slain: killed and to take: take old: elder [the] city [the] he/she/it heifer cattle which not to serve: labour in/on/with her which not to draw in/on/with yoke
Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,
4 and to go down old: elder [the] city [the] he/she/it [obj] [the] heifer to(wards) torrent: valley strong which not to serve: labour in/on/with him and not to sow and to break the neck there [obj] [the] heifer in/on/with torrent: valley
bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.
5 and to approach: approach [the] priest son: child Levi for in/on/with them to choose LORD God your to/for to minister him and to/for to bless in/on/with name LORD and upon lip: word their to be all strife and all plague
And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name and to give a ruling in every dispute and case of assault.
6 and all old: elder [the] city [the] he/she/it [the] near to(wards) [the] slain: killed to wash: wash [obj] hand their upon [the] heifer [the] to break the neck in/on/with torrent: valley
Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,
7 and to answer and to say hand our not (to pour: kill *Q(K)*) [obj] [the] blood [the] this and eye our not to see: see
and they shall declare, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.
8 to atone to/for people your Israel which to ransom LORD and not to give: put blood innocent in/on/with entrails: among people your Israel and to atone to/for them [the] blood
Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.
9 and you(m. s.) to burn: purge [the] blood [the] innocent from entrails: among your for to make: do [the] upright in/on/with eye: seeing LORD
So you shall purge from among you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
10 for to come out: come to/for battle upon enemy your and to give: give him LORD God your in/on/with hand: power your and to take captive captivity his
When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive,
11 and to see: see in/on/with captive woman beautiful appearance and to desire in/on/with her and to take: take to/for you to/for woman: wife
if you see a beautiful woman among them, and you desire her and want to take her as your wife,
12 and to come (in): bring her to(wards) midst house: home your and to shave [obj] head her and to make: do [obj] fingernail her
then you shall bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,
13 and to turn aside: remove [obj] mantle captivity her from upon her and to dwell in/on/with house: home your and to weep [obj] father her and [obj] mother her month day and after so to come (in): come to(wards) her and master: husband her and to be to/for you to/for woman: wife
and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
14 and to be if not to delight in in/on/with her and to send: let go her to/for soul: appetite her and to sell not to sell her in/on/with silver: money not to tyranise in/on/with her underneath: because of which to afflict her
And if you are not pleased with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
15 for to be to/for man two woman: wife [the] one to love: lover and [the] one to hate and to beget to/for him son: child [the] to love: lover and [the] to hate and to be [the] son: child [the] firstborn to/for hated
If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
16 and to be in/on/with day to inherit he [obj] son: child his [obj] which to be to/for him not be able to/for to be/bear firstborn [obj] son: child [the] to love: lover upon face son: child [the] to hate [the] firstborn
when that man assigns his inheritance to his sons he must not appoint the son of the beloved wife as the firstborn over the son of the unloved wife.
17 for [obj] [the] firstborn son: child [the] to hate to recognize to/for to give: give to/for him lip: according two in/on/with all which to find to/for him for he/she/it first: beginning strength his to/for him justice [the] birthright
Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father’s strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.
18 for to be to/for man: anyone son: child to rebel and to rebel nothing he to hear: obey in/on/with voice father his and in/on/with voice mother his (and to discipline *L(abh)*) [obj] him and not to hear: hear to(wards) them
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
19 and to capture in/on/with him father his and mother his and to come out: send [obj] him to(wards) old: elder city his and to(wards) gate place his
his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
20 and to say to(wards) old: elder city his son: child our this to rebel and to rebel nothing he to hear: obey in/on/with voice our be vile and be drunk
and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
21 and to stone him all human city his in/on/with stone and to die and to burn: purge [the] bad: evil from entrails: among your and all Israel to hear: hear and to fear
Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
22 and for to be in/on/with man: anyone sin justice: judgement death and to die and to hang [obj] him upon tree
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
23 not to lodge carcass his upon [the] tree for to bury to bury him in/on/with day [the] he/she/it for curse God to hang and not to defile [obj] land: soil your which LORD God your to give: give to/for you inheritance
you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.