23 verses of case law address an unsolved murder investigation, a captive woman brought into her captor’s house, a firstborn’s inheritance rights, and a rebellious son who defies his parents.
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Lyrics
If someone is found slain in the land Which the LORD your God gives you to possess
Lying in the field and it is not known Who has struck him Then your elders and your judges shall come out
And they shall measure to the cities Which are around him who is slain The elders of the city which is nearest
Shall take a heifer of the herd Which has not been worked with And which has not drawn in the yoke
They shall bring the heifer down to a valley With running water which is neither ploughed nor sown And shall break the heifer’s neck there
The priests the sons of Levi shall come near For them the LORD your God has chosen to minister And to bless in the LORD’s name
All the elders of that city which is nearest Shall wash their hands over the heifer Whose neck was broken in the valley
They shall answer and say our hands have not shed this blood Neither have our eyes seen it Forgive LORD your people Israel
Whom you have redeemed and do not allow innocent blood Amongst your people Israel
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Deuteronomy 21 sung by Psalm Selah. The whole Bible, one chapter at a time.