{"id":"DEU.21.1","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":1,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:1","text":"If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath smitten him;"}
{"id":"DEU.21.2","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":2,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:2","text":"then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:"}
{"id":"DEU.21.3","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":3,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:3","text":"and it shall be, that the city which is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;"}
{"id":"DEU.21.4","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":4,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:4","text":"and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley."}
{"id":"DEU.21.5","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":5,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:5","text":"And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Jehovah thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be."}
{"id":"DEU.21.6","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":6,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:6","text":"And all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;"}
{"id":"DEU.21.7","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":7,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:7","text":"and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it."}
{"id":"DEU.21.8","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":8,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:8","text":"Forgive, O Jehovah, thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and suffer not innocent blood to remain in the midst of thy people Israel. And the blood shall be forgiven them."}
{"id":"DEU.21.9","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":9,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:9","text":"So shalt thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah."}
{"id":"DEU.21.10","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":10,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:10","text":"When thou goest forth to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God delivereth them into thy hands, and thou carriest them away captive,"}
{"id":"DEU.21.11","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":11,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:11","text":"and seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife;"}
{"id":"DEU.21.12","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":12,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:12","text":"then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;"}
{"id":"DEU.21.13","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":13,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:13","text":"and she shall put the raiment of her captivity from off her, and shall remain in thy 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."}
{"id":"DEU.21.14","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":14,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:14","text":"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 deal with her as a slave, because thou hast humbled her."}
{"id":"DEU.21.15","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":15,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:15","text":"If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;"}
{"id":"DEU.21.16","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":16,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:16","text":"then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born:"}
{"id":"DEU.21.17","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":17,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:17","text":"but he shall acknowledge the first-born, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath; for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the first-born is his."}
{"id":"DEU.21.18","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":18,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:18","text":"If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, that will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and, though they chasten him, will not hearken unto them;"}
{"id":"DEU.21.19","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":19,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:19","text":"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;"}
{"id":"DEU.21.20","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":20,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:20","text":"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."}
{"id":"DEU.21.21","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":21,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:21","text":"And all the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear."}
{"id":"DEU.21.22","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":22,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:22","text":"And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree;"}
{"id":"DEU.21.23","translation_id":"asv-eng-asv","book_id":"DEU","book":"Deuteronomy","chapter":21,"verse":23,"reference":"Deuteronomy 21:23","text":"his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt surely bury him the same day; for he that is hanged is accursed of God; that thou defile not thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance."}