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And the priests the Levites shall come, because the Lord God has chosen them to stand by him, and to bless in his name, and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be .
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And all the elders of that city who draw nigh to the slain man shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer which was slain in the valley;
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and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen .
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Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O Lord, that innocent blood may not be charged on thy people Israel: and the blood shall be atoned for to them.
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And thou shalt take away innocent blood from among you, if thou shouldest do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord thy God.
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And if when thou goest out to war against thine enemies, the Lord thy God should deliver them into thine hands, and thou shouldest take their spoil,
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and shouldest see among the spoil a woman beautiful in countenance, and shouldest desire her, and take her to thyself for a wife,
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and shouldest bring her within thine house: then shalt thou shave her head, and pare her nails;
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and shalt take away her garments of captivity from off her, and she shall abide in thine house, and shall bewail her father and mother the days of a month; and afterwards thou shalt go in to her and dwell with her, and she shall be thy wife.
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And it shall be if thou do not delight in her, thou shalt send her out free; and she shall not by any means be sold for money, thou shalt not treat her contemptuously, because thou hast humbled her.
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And if a man have two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and both the loved and the hated should have born him , and the son of the hated should be first-born;