Deuteronomii 21

1 Quando inventum fuerit in terra, quam Dominus Deus tuus daturus est tibi, hominis cadaver occisi, et ignorabitur caedis reus,

If it will be found [one] slain in the land which Yahweh God your [is] about to give to you to take possession of it lying in the open country not it is known who? did he strike him.

2 egredientur maiores natu, et iudices tui, et metientur a loco cadaveris singularum per circuitum spatia civitatum:

And they will go out elders your and judges your and they will measure to the cities which [are] around the [one] slain.

3 et quam viciniorem ceteris esse perspexerint, seniores civitatis illius tollent vitulam de armento, quae non traxit iugum, nec terram scidit vomere,

And it will be the city near to the [one] slain and they will take [the] elders of the city that a heifer of [the] herd which not it has been worked by it which not it has dragged by a yoke.

4 et ducent eam ad vallem asperam atque saxosam, quae numquam arata est, nec sementem recepit: et caedent in ea cervices vitulae:

And they will bring down [the] elders of the city that the heifer to a wadi ever-flowing which not it is tilled in it and not it is sown and they will break [the] neck of there the heifer in the wadi.

5 accedentque sacerdotes filii Levi, quos elegerit Dominus Deus tuus ut ministrent ei, et benedicant in nomine eius, et ad verbum eorum omne negotium, et quidquid mundum, vel immundum est, iudicetur.

And they will draw near the priests [the] sons of Levi for them he has chosen Yahweh God your to serve him and to bless in [the] name of Yahweh and on mouth their it will be every dispute and every wound.

6 Et venient maiores natu civitatis illius ad interfectum, lavabuntque manus suas super vitulam, quae in valle percussa est,

And all [the] elders of the city that near to the [one] slain they will wash hands their over the heifer broken necked in the wadi.

7 et dicent: Manus nostrae non effuderunt sanguinem hunc, nec oculi viderunt.

And they will answer and they will say hands our not (they shed *Q(K)*) the blood this and eyes our not they saw.

8 propitius esto populo tuo Israel, quem redemisti Domine, et ne reputes sanguinem innocentem in medio populi tui Israel. Et auferetur ab eis reatus sanguinis:

Make atonement for people your Israel which you ransomed O Yahweh and may not you put blood innocent in [the] midst of people your Israel and it will be atoned for for them the blood.

9 tu autem alienus eris ab innocentis cruore, qui fusus est, cum feceris quod praecepit Dominus.

And you you will remove the blood innocent from midst your for you will do the right in [the] eyes of Yahweh.

10 Si egressus fueris ad pugnam contra inimicos tuos, et tradiderit eos Dominus Deus tuus in manu tua, captivosque duxeris,

If you will go out to war on enemies your and he will give him Yahweh God your in hand your and you will take captive captive[s] his.

11 et videris in numero captivorum mulierem pulchram, et adamaveris eam, voluerisque habere uxorem,

And you will see among the [female] captive[s] a woman beautiful of appearance and you will love her and you will take [her] for yourself to a wife.

12 introduces eam in domum tuam: quae radet caesariem, et circumcidet ungues,

And you will bring her into [the] middle of house your and she will shave head her and she will attend to finger-nails her.

13 et deponet vestem, in qua capta est: sedensque in domo tua, flebit patrem et matrem suam uno mense: et postea intrabis ad eam, dormiesque cum illa, et erit uxor tua.

And she will remove [the] clothing of captivity her from on her and she will dwell in house your and she will weep for father her and mother her a month of days and after thus you will go into her and you will be husband her and she will become of you a wife.

14 Si autem postea non sederit animo tuo, dimittes eam liberam, nec vendere poteris pecunia, nec opprimere per potentiam: quia humiliasti eam.

And it will be if not you delight in her and you will let go her for self her and certainly not you will sell her for money not you will treat as a slave her because that you have humiliated her.

15 Si habuerit homo uxores duas, unam dilectam, et alteram odiosam, genueritque ex eis liberos, et fuerit filius odiosae primogenitus,

If they will belong to a man two wives the one [is] loved and the one [is] hated and they will bear to him sons the loved [one] and the hated [one] and he will belong the son the firstborn to the hated [wife].

16 volueritque substantiam inter filios suos dividere: non poterit filium dilectae facere primogenitum, et praeferre filio odiosae,

And it will be on [the] day causes to inherit he sons his [that] which it will belong to him not he will be able to treat as firstborn [the] son the loved [one] on [the] face of [the] son of the hated [one] the firstborn.

17 sed filium odiosae agnoscet primogenitum, dabitque ei de his quae habuerit cuncta duplicia: iste est enim principium liberorum eius, et huic debentur primogenita.

That the firstborn [the] son of the hated [one] he will acknowledge by giving to him a mouth of two in all that it will be found to him for he [is] [the] beginning of manly vigor his [belongs] to him [the] claim of the birthright.

18 Si genuerit homo filium contumacem et protervum, qui non audierit patris aut matris imperium, et coercitus obedire contempserit:

If he will belong to anyone a son stubborn and rebellious not he [is] listening to [the] voice of father his and to [the] voice of mother his (and they will discipline *L(abh)*) him and not he will listen to them.

19 apprehendent eum, et ducent ad seniores civitatis illius, et ad portam iudicii,

And they will seize him father his and mother his and they will bring out him to [the] elders of city his and to [the] gate of place his.

20 dicentque ad eos: Filius noster iste protervus et contumax est, monita nostra audire contemnit, comessationibus vacat, et luxuriae atque conviviis:

And they will say to [the] elders of city his son our this [is] stubborn and rebellious not he [is] listening to voice our a glutton and a drunkard.

21 lapidibus eum obruet populus civitatis: et morietur, ut auferatis malum de medio vestri, et universus Israel audiens pertimescat.

And they will stone him all [the] men of city his with stones and he will die and you will remove the evil from midst your and all Israel they will hear and they may fear.

22 Quando peccaverit homo quod morte plectendum est, et adiudicatus morti appensus fuerit in patibulo:

And if it will be in anyone a sin of a sentence of death and he will be put to death and you will hang him on a tree.

23 non permanebit cadaver eius in ligno, sed in eadem die sepelietur: quia maledictus a Deo est qui pendet in ligno: et nequaquam contaminabis Terram tuam, quam Dominus Deus tuus dederit tibi in possessionem.

Not it will remain overnight corpse his on the tree for certainly you will bury him on the day that for [is] a curse of God [one who] is hanged and not you will make unclean land your which Yahweh God your [is] about to give to you an inheritance.