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Thus you will banish the shedding of innocent blood from among you, by doing what ADONAI sees as right.
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"When you go out to war against your enemies, and ADONAI your God hands them over to you, and you take prisoners,
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and you see among the prisoners a woman who looks good to you, and you feel attracted to her and want her as your wife;
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you are to bring her home to your house, where she will shave her head, cut her fingernails
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and remove her prison clothing. She will stay there in your house, mourning her father and mother for a full month; after which you may go in to have sexual relations with her and be her husband, and she will be your wife.
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In the event that you lose interest in her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes; but you may not sell her for money or treat her like a slave, because you humiliated her.
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"If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and unloved wives have borne him children, and if the firstborn son is the child of the unloved wife;
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then, when it comes time for him to pass his inheritance on to his sons, he may not give the inheritance due the firstborn to the son of the loved wife in place of the son of the unloved one, who is in fact the firstborn.
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No, he must acknowledge as firstborn the son of the unloved wife by giving him a double portion of everything he owns, for he is the firstfruits of his manhood, and the right of the firstborn is his.
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"If a man has a stubborn, rebellious son who will not obey what his father or mother says, and even after they discipline him he still refuses to pay attention to them;
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then his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him out to the leaders of his town, at the gate of that place,