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Deuteronomy 21:12-23 Common English Bible (CEB)

12. bringing her into your home, she must shave her head, cut her nails,

13. remove her prisoner’s clothing, and live in your house, mourning her father and her mother for one month. After that, you may consummate the marriage. You will be her husband, and she will be your wife.

14. But if you aren’t pleased with her, you must send her away as she wishes. You are not allowed to sell her for money or treat her as a slave because you have humiliated her.

15. Now suppose a man has two wives—one of them loved and the other unloved. Both wives bear children, but the oldest male is the unloved wife’s child.

16. On the day when the man decides what will go to each of his children as an inheritance, he isn’t allowed to treat his loved wife’s son as the oldest male rather than his unloved wife’s son, who is the real oldest male.

17. Instead, he must acknowledge the unloved wife’s son as the oldest male, giving to him two-thirds of everything that he owns, because that son is the earliest produce of his physical power. The oldest male’s rights belong to that son.

18. Now if someone has a consistently stubborn and rebellious child, who refuses to listen to their father and mother—even when the parents discipline him, he won’t listen to them—

19. the father and mother will take the son before the elders of that city at its gates.

20. Then they will inform the city’s elders: "This son of ours is consistently stubborn and rebellious, refusing to listen to us. What’s more, he’s wild and a drunkard."

21. Then all the people of that town will stone him until he dies.Remove such evil from your community! All Israel will hear about this and be afraid.

22. Now if someone is guilty of a capital crime, and they are executed, and you then hang them on a tree,

23. you must not leave the body hanging on the tree but must bury it the same day because God’s curse is on those who are hanged. Furthermore, you must not pollute the ground that the Lord your God is giving to you as an inheritance.

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