Deuteronomy 21:10-23
Marrying Female Captives
10“When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God gives them into your hand and you take them captive, 11and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife, 12and you bring her home to your house, she shall shave her head and pare her nails. 13And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and alament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. 14But if you no longer delight in her, you shall blet her go where she wants. But you shall not sell her for money, nor shall you ctreat her as a slave, since you have humiliated her.Inheritance Rights of the Firstborn
15“If a man has two wives, dthe one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, ▼▼Or hated; also verses 16, 17
16then on the day when fhe assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn, 17but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is gthe firstfruits of his strength. hThe right of the firstborn is his. A Rebellious Son
18“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, 19then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, 20and they shall say to 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 iThen all the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. jSo you shall purge the evil from your midst, kand all Israel shall hear, and fear.A Man Hanged on a Tree Is Cursed
22“And if a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, 23 lhis body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for ma hanged man is cursed by God. nYou shall not defile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.
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