5. The kohanim, the sons of Levi, will come forward—for Adonai your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His Name, and by their mouth every dispute and assault is to be settled.
6. All the elders of that city nearest to the slain one will wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi.
7. Then they will answer and say, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see.
8. Grant atonement for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, Adonai, and do not put innocent blood on Your people Israel.’ Then atonement will be granted to them for the blood.
9. So you will purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in Adonai’s sight.
10. “When you go out to war against your enemies, and Adonai your God hands them over to you and you take them captive,
11. suppose you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire her and would take her as a wife for yourself.
12. Then you are to bring her into your house, and she must shave her head, trim her nails,
13. and remove her captive’s clothing, then sit in your house and weep for her father and mother a full month. After that, you may go to her and become her husband and she will be your wife.
14. Now if you are not pleased with her, then you may send her off wherever she wishes. But you must certainly not sell her for silver—you may not treat her as merchandise, since you have humiliated her.
15. “Suppose a man has two wives—the one loved and the other unloved—and both the loved and the unloved bear him sons. But it happens that the firstborn son belongs to the unloved wife.
16. Now on the day he lets his sons inherit what he has, he must not treat the loved one’s son as firstborn, in place of the unloved one’s son, who is the firstborn.
17. Rather, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated one, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For he is the first of his vigor—the right of the firstborn is his.