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And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.
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Then they shall answer and say, 'Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it.
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Provide atonement, O Lord, for Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not lay innocent blood to the charge of Your people Israel.' And atonement shall be provided on their behalf for the blood.
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So you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you when you do what is right in the sight of the Lord.
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"When you go out to war against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your hand, and you take them captive,
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and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and desire her and would take her for your wife,
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then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails.
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She shall put off the clothes of her captivity, remain in your house, and mourn 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.
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And it shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall set her free, but you certainly shall not sell her for money; you shall not treat her brutally, because you have humbled her.
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"If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved, and if the firstborn son is of her who is unloved,
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then it shall be, on the day he bequeaths his possessions to his sons, that he must not bestow firstborn status on the son of the loved wife in preference to the son of the unloved, the true firstborn.