20ONLY A TREE WHICH YOU WILL KNOW THAT [IS] NOT A TREE OF FOOD IT <OBJ.> IT YOU WILL DESTROY AND YOU WILL CUT DOWN AND YOU WILL BUILD SIEGE WORK[S] ON THE CITY WHICH IT [IS] MAKING WITH YOU WAR UNTIL FALLS IT 20But you may destroy the trees that you know do not produce fruit. Use them to build siege works against the city that is waging war against you, until it falls.
1IF IT WILL BE FOUND [ONE] SLAIN IN THE LAND WHICH YAHWEH GOD YOUR [IS] ABOUT TO GIVE TO <THE> YOU TO TAKE POSSESSION OF IT LYING IN THE OPEN COUNTRY NOT IT IS KNOWN WHO? DID HE STRIKE HIM Atonement for an Unsolved Murder 1If 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,
2AND THEY WILL GO OUT ELDERS YOUR AND JUDGES YOUR AND THEY WILL MEASURE TO THE CITIES WHICH [ARE] AROUND THE [ONE] SLAIN 2your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.
3AND IT WILL BE THE CITY <THE> NEAR TO THE [ONE] SLAIN AND THEY WILL TAKE [THE] ELDERS OF THE CITY <THE> THAT A HEIFER OF [THE] HERD WHICH NOT IT HAS BEEN WORKED BY <THE> IT WHICH NOT IT HAS DRAGGED BY A YOKE 3Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work
4AND THEY WILL BRING DOWN [THE] ELDERS OF THE CITY <THE> THAT <OBJ.> THE HEIFER TO A WADI EVER-FLOWING WHICH NOT IT IS TILLED IN <THE> IT AND NOT IT IS SOWN AND THEY WILL BREAK [THE] NECK OF THERE <OBJ.> THE HEIFER IN THE WADI 4bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.
5AND THEY WILL DRAW NEAR THE PRIESTS [THE] SONS OF LEVI FOR <IN> <THE> 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 5And 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.
6AND ALL [THE] ELDERS OF THE CITY <THE> THAT <THE> NEAR TO THE [ONE] SLAIN THEY WILL WASH <OBJ.> HANDS THEIR OVER THE HEIFER <THE> BROKEN NECKED IN THE WADI 6Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,
7AND THEY WILL ANSWER AND THEY WILL SAY HANDS OUR NOT THEY SHED <OBJ.> THE BLOOD <THE> THIS AND EYES OUR NOT THEY SAW 7and they shall declare, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.
8MAKE 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 <THE> THEM THE BLOOD 8Accept 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.
9AND YOU YOU WILL REMOVE THE BLOOD <THE> INNOCENT FROM MIDST YOUR FOR YOU WILL DO THE RIGHT IN [THE] EYES OF YAHWEH 9So 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.
10IF YOU WILL GO OUT TO <THE> WAR ON ENEMIES YOUR AND HE WILL GIVE HIM YAHWEH GOD YOUR IN HAND YOUR AND YOU WILL TAKE CAPTIVE CAPTIVE[S] HIS Marrying a Captive Woman 10When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hand and you take them captive,
11AND YOU WILL SEE AMONG THE [FEMALE] CAPTIVE[S] A WOMAN BEAUTIFUL OF APPEARANCE AND YOU WILL LOVE <IN> <THE> HER AND YOU WILL TAKE [HER] FOR <THE> YOURSELF TO A WIFE 11if you see a beautiful woman among them, and you desire her and want to take her as your wife,
12AND YOU WILL BRING HER INTO [THE] MIDDLE OF HOUSE YOUR AND SHE WILL SHAVE <OBJ.> HEAD HER AND SHE WILL ATTEND TO <OBJ.> FINGER-NAILS HER 12then you shall bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,
13AND SHE WILL REMOVE <OBJ.> [THE] CLOTHING OF CAPTIVITY HER FROM ON <THE> HER AND SHE WILL DWELL IN HOUSE YOUR AND SHE WILL WEEP FOR <OBJ.> FATHER HER AND <OBJ.> 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 <INTO> A WIFE 13and 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.
14AND IT WILL BE IF NOT YOU DELIGHT IN <THE> HER AND YOU WILL LET GO HER FOR SELF HER AND CERTAINLY <SELL> NOT YOU WILL SELL HER FOR <THE> MONEY NOT YOU WILL TREAT AS A SLAVE <IN> <THE> HER BECAUSE THAT YOU HAVE HUMILIATED HER 14And 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.
15IF THEY WILL BELONG TO A MAN TWO WIVES THE ONE [IS] LOVED AND THE ONE [IS] HATED AND THEY WILL BEAR TO <THE> HIM SONS THE LOVED [ONE] AND THE HATED [ONE] AND HE WILL BELONG THE SON THE FIRSTBORN TO THE HATED [WIFE] Inheritance Rights of the Firstborn 15If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
16AND IT WILL BE ON [THE] DAY CAUSES TO INHERIT HE <OBJ.> SONS HIS <OBJ.> [THAT] WHICH IT WILL BELONG TO <THE> HIM NOT HE WILL BE ABLE TO TREAT AS FIRSTBORN <OBJ.> [THE] SON THE LOVED [ONE] ON [THE] FACE OF [THE] SON OF THE HATED [ONE] THE FIRSTBORN 16when 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.
17THAT <OBJ.> THE FIRSTBORN [THE] SON OF THE HATED [ONE] HE WILL ACKNOWLEDGE BY GIVING TO <THE> HIM A MOUTH OF TWO IN ALL THAT IT WILL BE FOUND TO <THE> HIM FOR HE [IS] [THE] BEGINNING OF MANLY VIGOR HIS [BELONGS] TO <THE> HIM [THE] CLAIM OF THE BIRTHRIGHT 17Instead, 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.
18IF 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 <OBJ.> HIM AND NOT HE WILL LISTEN TO THEM A Rebellious Son (Luke 15:11–32) 18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined
19AND THEY WILL SEIZE <IN> <THE> HIM FATHER HIS AND MOTHER HIS AND THEY WILL BRING OUT <OBJ.> HIM TO [THE] ELDERS OF CITY HIS AND TO [THE] GATE OF PLACE HIS 19his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
20AND 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 20and say to the elders “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
21AND THEY WILL STONE HIM ALL [THE] MEN OF CITY HIS WITH <THE> STONES AND HE WILL DIE AND YOU WILL REMOVE THE EVIL FROM MIDST YOUR AND ALL ISRAEL THEY WILL HEAR AND THEY MAY FEAR 21Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you,*NoteCloseCited in 1 Corinthians 5:13 and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
22AND IF IT WILL BE IN ANYONE A SIN OF A SENTENCE OF DEATH AND HE WILL BE PUT TO DEATH AND YOU WILL HANG <OBJ.> HIM ON A TREE Cursed Is Anyone Hung on a Tree 22If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,*NoteCloseOr impale his body on a pole; similarly in verse 23
23NOT IT WILL REMAIN OVERNIGHT CORPSE HIS ON THE TREE FOR CERTAINLY <TO BURY> YOU WILL BURY HIM ON THE DAY <THE> THAT FOR [IS] A CURSE OF GOD [ONE WHO] IS HANGED AND NOT YOU WILL MAKE UNCLEAN <OBJ.> LAND YOUR WHICH YAHWEH GOD YOUR [IS] ABOUT TO GIVE TO <THE> YOU AN INHERITANCE 23you 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.*NoteCloseLXX; Hebrew anyone who is hanged is under God’s curse; cited in Galatians 3:13 You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.