1 quando inventum fuerit in terra
quam Dominus Deus tuus daturus est tibi
hominis cadaver occisi et ignoratur caedis reus
2 egredientur maiores natu et iudices tui
et metientur a loco cadaveris
singularum per circuitum spatia civitatum
3 et quam viciniorem ceteris esse perspexerint
seniores civitatis eius tollent vitulam de armento
quae non traxit iugum nec terram scidit vomere
4 et ducent eam ad vallem asperam atque saxosam
quae numquam arata est nec sementem recepit
et caedent in ea cervices vitulae
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 quicquid mundum vel inmundum est iudicetur
6 et maiores natu civitatis illius ad
interfectum
lavabuntque manus suas super vitulam quae in valle percussa
est
7 et dicent manus nostrae non effuderunt hunc sanguinem
nec oculi viderunt
8 propitius esto populo tuo Israhel quem redemisti Domine
et non reputes sanguinem innocentem in medio populi tui Israhel
et auferetur ab eis reatus sanguinis
9 tu autem alienus eris ab innocentis cruore qui fusus est
cum feceris quod praecepit Dominus
10 si egressus fueris ad pugnam contra inimicos tuos
et tradiderit eos Dominus Deus tuus in manu tua captivosque duxeris
11 et videris in numero captivorum mulierem pulchram
et adamaveris eam voluerisque habere uxorem
12 introduces in domum tuam
quae radet caesariem et circumcidet ungues
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
14 sin autem postea non sederit animo tuo dimittes eam liberam
nec vendere poteris pecunia
nec opprimere per potentiam quia humiliasti eam
15 si habuerit homo uxores duas unam dilectam et alteram odiosam
genuerintque ex eo liberos et fuerit filius odiosae primogenitus
16 volueritque substantiam inter filios suos dividere
non poterit filium dilectae facere primogenitum
et praeferre filio odiosae
17 sed filium odiosae agnoscet primogenitum
dabitque ei de his quae habuerit cuncta duplicia
iste est enim principium liberorum eius
et huic debentur primogenita
18 si genuerit homo filium contumacem et protervum
qui non audiat patris aut matris imperium
et coercitus oboedire contempserit
19 adprehendent eum et ducent ad seniores
civitatis illius et ad portam iudicii
20 dicentque ad eos filius noster iste protervus et contumax est
monita nostra audire contemnit
comesationibus vacat et luxuriae atque conviviis
21 lapidibus eum obruet populus civitatis et morietur
ut auferatis malum de medio vestri
et universus Israhel audiens pertimescat
22 quando peccaverit homo quod morte plectendum est
et adiudicatus morti adpensus fuerit in patibulo
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
1 If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: 2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: 3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley: 5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried: 6 And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man , shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley: 7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it . 8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel’s charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them. 9 So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
10 ¶ When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the LORD thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive, 11 And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife; 12 Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails; 13 And she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thine house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month: and after that thou shalt go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be thy wife. 14 And it shall be, if thou have no delight in her, then thou shalt let her go whither she will; but thou shalt not sell her at all for money, thou shalt not make merchandise of her, because thou hast humbled her.
15 ¶ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated: 16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn: 17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
18 ¶ If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that , when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: 19 Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; 20 And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. 21 And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.
22 ¶ And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: 23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.