1“If one is found murdered, lying in a field, and it is not known who murdered him, 2Then your elders and your judges shall come out, and measure the distance from the dead to the nearest cities around him; 3And the elders of the city nearest to the slain man, shall take a heifer, which has not borne a yoke, and has not been worked; 4And shall lead the heifer down to a valley which has not been plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck in that valley. 5And the Levitical priests shall come near; for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister unto Him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every assault to be decided: 6And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck is broken in the valley. 7And shall say, ‘Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it done. 8Be merciful, O LORD, unto Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not lay the guilt of innocent blood upon Your people of Israel’. And the blood shall be forgiven them. 9So shall you put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of the LORD.

10“When you go to war against your enemies, and the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands, and you have taken them captive, 11And you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire to have her for your wife; 12Then you shall bring her home to your house; and she shall shave her head, and trim her nails; 13And she shall discard the clothing of her captivity, and remain in your house, and mourn her father and her mother for a full month; and after that you shall go in unto her, and be her husband, and she shall be your wife. 14But if you are no pleased with her, then you shall let her go wherever she will. But you must not sell her for money; you must not make merchandise of her, because you have humbled her.

15“If a man has two wives; and he loves one, but not the other, and both have born him children, both of the beloved and the other, and if the first-born son is of the wife he does not love; 16Then when he divides his inheritance between his sons, he may not designate the son of the beloved as his first-born ahead of the son of the unloved, which is indeed the first-born, 17But he shall acknowledge the son of the unloved as his first-born, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his.

18“If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey his father or his mother, and, when they have disciplined him, will not listen to them: 19Then his father and mother shall bring him to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his town. 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.’ 21And all the men of his city are to stone him to death: so shall you purge evil from among you, and all Israel shall hear of it, and fear.

22“And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and is put to death, and you hang him on a tree: 23His body must not remain on the tree all night, but you must surely bury him that day; (for he who is hanged is cursed in the eyes of God). You must not defile your land that the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.