Deuteronomy 21:10-23

Deuteronomy 21:10-23

[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  [11] And seest  among the captives  a beautiful  woman,  and hast a desire  unto her, that thou wouldest have her  to thy wife;  [12] Then thou shalt bring  her home  to thine house;  and she shall shave  her head,  and pare  her nails;  [13] And she shall put  the raiment  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  and she shall be thy wife.  [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  for money,  thou shalt not make merchandise  of her, because  thou hast humbled  her. [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] 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  before  the son  of the hated,  which is indeed the firstborn:  [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] 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  [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] 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,  [21] of his city  shall stone  him with stones,  that he die:  evil  away  from among  you; and all Israel  shall hear,  and fear.  [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:  [23] His body  shall not remain all night  upon the tree,  but thou shalt in any wise  him that day;  (for he that is hanged  is accursed  of God;)  that thy land  be not defiled,  which the LORD  thy God  giveth  thee for an inheritance.