Atonement for an Unsolved Murder
1If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who the killer was, 2your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns. 3Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke 4and lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer’s neck. 5The Levitical priests shall step forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord and to decide all cases of dispute and assault. 6Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley, 7and they shall declare: “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done. 8Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, Lord, and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent person.” Then the bloodshed will be atoned for, 9and you will have purged from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
Marrying a Captive Woman
10When you go to war against your enemies and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, 11if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. 12Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails 13and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife. 14If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
The Right of the Firstborn
15If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons but the firstborn is the son of the wife he does not love, 16when he wills his property to his sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves in preference to his actual firstborn, the son of the wife he does not love. 17He must acknowledge the son of his unloved wife as the firstborn by giving him a double share of all he has. That son is the first sign of his father’s strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.
A Rebellious Son
18If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, 19his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. 20They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” 21Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
Various Laws
22If someone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole, 23you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight. Be sure to bury it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God’s curse. You must not desecrate the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
殺人疑案的處理
1「在你們的上帝耶和華將要賜給你們的土地上，如果發現有人被殺，陳屍野外，卻不知道兇手是誰， 2當地的長老和審判官就要去測量一下屍體距附近各城邑的距離。 3距離屍體最近的那城的長老們要牽一頭從未負過軛、從未耕過地的小母牛， 4去有溪流但無人耕種過的山谷，在那裡把牠的頸項打斷。 5利未祭司也要去，因為你們的上帝耶和華揀選他們在祂面前事奉、奉祂的名為人祝福，並審理各種糾紛及人身傷害的事。 6那城的長老們要在被打斷頸項的小母牛上方洗手， 7然後禱告說，『我們的手沒有殺這人，我們的眼也沒有看見誰殺了他。 8耶和華啊，求你赦免你已經救贖的以色列子民，不要把殺害這無辜之人的罪算在你的子民身上。』這樣，殺人的罪便可得到赦免。 9你們做耶和華視為正的事，就可以從你們中間除去殺害無辜之人的罪。
娶女俘的條例
10「你們和敵人交戰時，你們的上帝耶和華會把敵人交給你們，使他們成為你們的俘虜。 11如果你們有人在俘虜中看見美麗的女子，被她吸引，想娶她為妻， 12就可以帶她回家，讓她剃去頭髮，修剪指甲， 13換掉被俘時所穿的衣服，住在那人家中為她父母哀悼一個月。之後，那人便可以和她結為夫妻。 14如果那人不喜歡她，則要讓她自由離去，絕不可賣掉她，也不可奴役她，因為他已經羞辱了她。
長子的權利
15「如果一個人有兩個妻子，一個受他寵愛，一個不受他寵愛，二人都給他生了兒子，但長子是不受寵愛的妻子生的， 16分產業的時候，他不可廢長立幼，把長子的權利給他所愛之妻生的兒子。 17他必須承認他不愛之妻所生的長子的名分，分給他雙份產業，因為長子是他壯年時所生的兒子，應享有長子的權利。
懲處逆子的條例
18「如果一個人的兒子冥頑不靈、悖逆父母、屢教不改， 19他父母要抓住他，把他帶到城門口去見本城的長老，對他們說， 20『我們這個兒子冥頑不靈、悖逆成性，不肯聽從我們，是個貪吃好酒之徒。』 21全城的人都要用石頭打死他，從你們中間除掉這種罪惡。所有以色列人聽說後，都會感到害怕。
罪犯屍體的處理
22「如果有人犯了死罪，被處死後掛在木頭上， 23不可讓屍體在木頭上過夜，必須當天埋葬，因為凡掛在木頭上的人都是上帝所咒詛的。你們不可玷污你們的上帝耶和華將要賜給你們的土地。
