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`And the priests, sons of Levi, have come nigh -- for on them hath Jehovah thy God fixed to serve Him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah, and by their mouth is every strife, and every stroke --
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and all the elders of that city, who are near unto the slain one, do wash their hands over the heifer which is beheaded in the valley,
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and they have answered and said, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen --
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receive atonement for Thy people Israel, whom Thou hast ransomed, O Jehovah, and suffer not innocent blood in the midst of Thy people Israel; and the blood hath been pardoned to them,
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and thou dost put away the innocent blood out of thy midst, for thou dost that which [is] right in the eyes of Jehovah.
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`When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and Jehovah thy God hath given them into thy hand, and thou hast taken captive its captivity,
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and hast seen in the captivity a woman of fair form, and hast delighted in her, and hast taken to thee for a wife,
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then thou hast brought her in unto the midst of thy household, and she hath shaved her head, and prepared her nails,
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and turned aside the raiment of her captivity from off her, and hath dwelt in thy house, and bewailed her father and her mother a month of days, and afterwards thou dost go in unto her and hast married her, and she hath been to thee for a wife:
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`And it hath been -- if thou hast not delighted in her, that thou hast sent her away at her desire, and thou dost not at all sell her for money; thou dost not tyrannize over her, because that thou hast humbled her.
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`When a man hath two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and they have borne to him sons (the loved one and the hated one), and the first-born son hath been to the hated one;