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|Deuteronômio 21:1| 'If, in the country which Yahweh your God gives you as your possession, a victim of murder is found lying in the open country and it is not known who has killed that person,
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|Deuteronômio 21:2| your elders and scribes must measure the distance between the victim and the surrounding towns,
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|Deuteronômio 21:3| and establish which town is the nearest to the victim. The elders of that town must then take a heifer that has not yet been put to work or used as a draught animal under the yoke.
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|Deuteronômio 21:4| The elders of that town must bring the heifer down to a permanently flowing river, to a spot that has been neither ploughed nor sown, and there by the river they must break the heifer's neck.
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|Deuteronômio 21:5| The priests, the sons of Levi, will then step forward, these being the men whom Yahweh your God has chosen to serve him and to bless in Yahweh's name, and it being their business to settle all cases of dispute or of violence.
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|Deuteronômio 21:6| All the elders of the town nearest to the victim of murder must then wash their hands in the stream, over the slaughtered heifer.
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|Deuteronômio 21:7| They must pronounce these words, "Our hands have not shed this blood and our eyes have seen nothing.
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|Deuteronômio 21:8| O Yahweh, forgive your people Israel whom you have redeemed, and let no innocent blood be shed among your people Israel. May this bloodshed be forgiven them!"
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|Deuteronômio 21:9| You must banish all shedding of innocent blood from among you, if you mean to do what is right in the eyes of Yahweh.
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|Deuteronômio 21:10| 'When you go to war against your enemies and Yahweh your God delivers them into your power and you take prisoners,
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