If a corpse is found in the land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you to inherit, fallen in the field, it is not known who smote him.

Your elders shall go out—and your judges—and measure in the direction of the cities around the corpse.

Now, the city nearest the corpse—the elders of that city are to take a calf-heifer that has not been worked, that has not drawn [with] a yoke.

The elders of that city will take down the calf to a stony valley that is not to be tilled and not to be seeded, and they shall decapitate the calf in that valley.

The kohanim, descendants of Levi, will approach; because them did Adonoy, your God, choose to serve Him and to bless in Adonoy’s Name; and they will decide every dispute [law] and every nega.

And all the elders of that city, those near the corpse, will wash their hands over the calf beheaded in that valley.

They will [answer] loudly declare, ‘‘Our hands have not spilled this blood and our eyes did not see.’’

[The kohanim will say,] ‘‘Forgive Your people Yisroel, whom You, Adonoy, have redeemed; and do not allow [the responsibility of] innocent blood [liability] within Your people Yisroel.’’ The blood shall thus be atoned for in their behalf.

Still, you must eradicate the [liability for] [shedding] innocent blood from within you, when you do what is upright [proper] in Adonoy’s eyes.

If you should go to [wage] war against your enemies, and Adonoy, your God, puts them in your hand, and you capture prisoners from them;

And you see among the prisoners a beautifully formed woman; if you desire her, you may take her as your wife.

You will bring her into your house and she will shave her head and allow her nails to grow.

She must discard her prisoner’s garb from upon her, and she will remain in your home and weep for her father and her mother a month of days; and afterwards you may come to her and consummate with her, and she will become your wife.

But it shall come to pass, that if you do not desire her you will send her free, but to sell—you may not sell her for money; you may not exploit her since you have oppressed her.

If a man has two wives, one loved and the other hated, and they bear him sons, the loved [one] and the hated [one], and the firstborn son will be the hated one’s.

When the day comes for him to will to his sons what he owns, he may not prefer the son of the loved one over the son of the hated one—the firstborn.

Rather, the firstborn son of the hated one is he to recognize [separate] to give him doublefold of all that he possesses; for he is the first of his power, he has the rights of primogeniture.

If a man has a wayward and rebellious son who does not obey his father[’s words] and his mother[’s words]; though they chasten [teach] him; he does not listen to [obey] them.

His father and mother are to grasp him and take him out to [before] the judges of his city and to the court in his location.

They will say to the judges of his city, ‘‘This son of ours is wayward and rebellious—he does not obey [our words]—gluttonous [with meat] and drunken [with wine].’’

And all the men of his city will stone him with stones so that he dies, and you will eliminate the evil [doers] within you; and let all Yisroel hear and be fearful.

If a man is guilty of a capital offense and is executed; you shall hang [crucify] him from a tree [on a crucifix].

Do not leave his corpse overnight on the tree [crucifix], but you are surely to bury him on that day, for a hanging corpse is an affront to God [for he was crucified because he sinned before Hashem]; so do not defile your land that Adonoy, your God, is giving you as territory.