1 “When one is found slain, fallen in a field on the ground which your God YHWH has given to you to possess it, and it is not known who has struck him, 2 then your elderly and yours of those judging will go out and measure to the cities which are around the slain one, 3 and it will be, the city which is near to the slain one, even the elderly of that city will take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked with, which has not drawn in a yoke, 4 and the elderly of that city will bring down the heifer to a hard valley, which is not tilled nor sown, and behead the heifer there in the valley. 5 And the priests, sons of Levi, will come near—for your God YHWH has fixed on them to serve Him and to bless in the name of YHWH, and by their mouth will be every strife and every stroke— 6 and all the elderly of that city, who were near to the slain one, will wash their hands over the heifer which was beheaded in the valley, 7 and they will answer and say, Our hands have not spilled this blood, and our eyes have not seen— 8 receive atonement for Your people Israel, whom You have ransomed, O YHWH, and do not permit innocent blood in the middle of Your people Israel. And the blood will be pardoned to them, 9 and you will put away the innocent blood out of your middle, for you will do that which is right in the eyes of YHWH. 10 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and your God YHWH has given them into your hand, and you have taken captive its captivity, 11 and have seen a woman of beautiful form in the captivity, and have delighted in her, and have taken her to yourself for a wife, 12 then you will bring her into the middle of your household, and she will shave her head, and prepare her nails, 13 and turn aside the raiment of her captivity from off her, and stay in your house, and lament her father and her mother for a month of days, and afterward you will go in to her and marry her, and she will be to you for a wife. 14 And it will be, if you have not delighted in her, that you send her away at her desire, and surely you will not sell her for money. You will not tyrannize over her, because that you humbled her. 15 When a man has two wives, one loved and the other hated, and they have given birth to sons to him (the loved one and the hated one), and the firstborn son has been to the hated one, 16 then it will be, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he has, he will not be able to declare firstborn the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one—the firstborn. 17 But the firstborn, son of the hated one, he will acknowledge, to give to him a double portion of all that is found with him, for he is the beginning of his strength. To him was the right of the firstborn. 18 When a man has a son apostatizing and being rebellious—he will not listen to the voice of his father and to the voice of his mother, and they have disciplined him, and he will not listen to them— 19 then his father and his mother will lay hold on him, and they will bring him out to the elderly of his city, and to the gate of his place, 20 and will say to the elderly of his city, Our son—this one—is apostatizing and being rebellious. He is not listening to our voice—a glutton and drunkard. 21 Then all the men of his city will stone him with stones and he will die, and you will put away the evil out of your middle, and all Israel will hear and fear. 22 And when there is a sin in a man with a judgment of death, and he has been put to death, and you have hanged him on a tree, 23 his corpse will not remain on the tree, for you will certainly bury him in the day—for he who is hanged becomes a curse of God—and you will not defile your ground which your God YHWH has given to you for an inheritance.”