7. and they shall answer and say, 'Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.
8. Forgive Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, O Lord, and do not place the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel.' And the bloodguiltiness shall be forgiven them.
9. So you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
10. "When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the Lord your God delivers them into your hands and you take them away captive,
11. and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and have a desire for her and would take her as a wife for yourself,
12. then you shall bring her home to your house, and she shall shave her head and trim her nails.
13. She shall also remove the clothes of her captivity and shall remain in your house, and mourn her father and mother a full month; and after that you may go in to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.
14. It shall be, if you are not pleased with her, then you shall let her go wherever she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell her for money, you shall not mistreat her, because you have humbled her.
15. "If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,
16. then it shall be in the day he wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the son of the loved the firstborn before the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn.
17. But he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the beginning of his strength; to him belongs the right of the firstborn.
18. "If any man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or his mother, and when they chastise him, he will not even listen to them,