{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-08-22T14:14:13Z", "language": "en", "book": "deuteronomy", "chapter": 21 }, "data": { "n": 21, "bookSlug": "deuteronomy", "bookCode": "DEU", "refId": "", "title": "", "translation": null, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "DEU-21:1", "verseRef": "Deut.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;" },{ "n": 2, "refId": "DEU-21:2", "verseRef": "Deut.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:" },{ "n": 3, "refId": "DEU-21:3", "verseRef": "Deut.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;" },{ "n": 4, "refId": "DEU-21:4", "verseRef": "Deut.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." },{ "n": 5, "refId": "DEU-21:5", "verseRef": "Deut.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." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "DEU-21:6", "verseRef": "Deut.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;" },{ "n": 7, "refId": "DEU-21:7", "verseRef": "Deut.21.7", "text": "and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "DEU-21:8", "verseRef": "Deut.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." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "DEU-21:9", "verseRef": "Deut.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." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "DEU-21:10", "verseRef": "Deut.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," },{ "n": 11, "refId": "DEU-21:11", "verseRef": "Deut.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;" },{ "n": 12, "refId": "DEU-21:12", "verseRef": "Deut.21.12", "text": "then thou shalt bring her home to thy house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;" },{ "n": 13, "refId": "DEU-21:13", "verseRef": "Deut.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." },{ "n": 14, "refId": "DEU-21:14", "verseRef": "Deut.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." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "DEU-21:15", "verseRef": "Deut.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;" },{ "n": 16, "refId": "DEU-21:16", "verseRef": "Deut.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:" },{ "n": 17, "refId": "DEU-21:17", "verseRef": "Deut.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." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "DEU-21:18", "verseRef": "Deut.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;" },{ "n": 19, "refId": "DEU-21:19", "verseRef": "Deut.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;" },{ "n": 20, "refId": "DEU-21:20", "verseRef": "Deut.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." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "DEU-21:21", "verseRef": "Deut.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." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "DEU-21:22", "verseRef": "Deut.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;" },{ "n": 23, "refId": "DEU-21:23", "verseRef": "Deut.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." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/deuteronomy/chapters/21", "book": "/v1/library/books/deuteronomy/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/deuteronomy/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }