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## Deuteronomy 21:1-19 in Context (Verses 1–22 KJV)
 
 [1 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/1) 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/2) 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/3) 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/4) 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/5) 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/6) 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/7) And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen *it*.
 
 [8 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/8) 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/9) 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/10) ¶ 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/11) And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;
 
 [12 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/12) Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;*
 
 [13 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/13) 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/14) 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/15) ¶ 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/16) 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/17) 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/18) ¶ 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/19) 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/20) 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/21) 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 ](/kjv/deuteronomy/21/22) ¶ 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:
 
[Deuteronomy 20](/kjv/deuteronomy/20) [Deuteronomy 22](/kjv/deuteronomy/22)

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