6. “And let all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi.
7. “And they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it.
8. ‘O יהוה, forgive Your people Yisra’ĕl, whom You have redeemed, and do not allow innocent blood in the midst of Your people Yisra’ĕl.’ And the blood-guilt shall be pardoned to them.
9. “Thus you purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst when you do what is right in the eyes of יהוה.
10. “When you go out to fight against your enemies, and יהוה your Elohim shall give them into your hand, and you shall take them captive,
11. and shall see among the captives a woman fair of form, and shall delight in her and take her for your wife,
12. then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails,
13. and put aside the mantle of her captivity, and shall dwell in your house, and mourn her father and her mother a month of days. And after that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
14. “And it shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you shall let her go at her desire, but you do not sell her at all for silver. Do not treat her harshly, since you have humbled her.
15. “When a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and they have borne him children, both the loved and the unloved, and the first-born son is of her who is unloved,
16. then it shall be, on the day he makes his sons to inherit his possessions, he is not allowed to treat the son of the beloved wife as first-born in the face of the son of the unloved, who is truly the first-born.
17. “But he is to acknowledge the son of the unloved wife as the first-born by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength – the right of the first-born is his.
18. “When a man has a wayward and rebellious son who is not listening to the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and who, when they have disciplined him, does not listen to them,