Deuteronomy · Brenton's English Septuagint
Deuteronomy 21 Brenton's English Septuagint
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- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
1 And if one be found slain with the sword in the land, which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, having fallen in the field, and they do not know who has smitten [him];
1 If someone is found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him,
2 thine elders and thy judges shall come forth, and shall measure the distances of the cities round about the slain man:
2 then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.
3 and it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not laboured, and which has not borne a yoke.
3 It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke.
4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer into a rough valley, which has not been tilled and is not sown, and they shall slay the heifer in the valley.
4 The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.
5 And the priests the Levites shall come, because the Lord God has chosen them to stand by him, and to bless in his name, and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be [decided].
5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided.
6 And all the elders of that city who draw nigh to the slain man shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer which was slain in the valley;
6 All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.
7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen [it].
7 They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
8 Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O Lord, that innocent blood may not be charged on thy people Israel: and the blood shall be atoned for to them.
8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.
9 And thou shalt take away innocent blood from among you, if thou shouldest do that which is good and pleasing before the Lord thy God.
9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
10 And if when thou goest out to war against thine enemies, the Lord thy God should deliver them into thine hands, and thou shouldest take their spoil,
10 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands and you carry them away captive,
11 and shouldest see among the spoil a woman beautiful in countenance, and shouldest desire her, and take her to thyself for a wife,
11 and see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her as your wife,
12 and shouldest bring her within thine house: then shalt thou shave her head, and pare her nails;
12 then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails.
13 and shalt take away her garments of captivity from off her, and she shall abide in thine house, and shall bewail her father and mother the days of a month; and afterwards thou shalt go in to her and dwell with her, and she shall be thy wife.
13 She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her father and her mother a full month. After that you shall go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
14 And it shall be if thou do not delight in her, thou shalt send her out free; and she shall not by any means be sold for money, thou shalt not treat her contemptuously, because thou hast humbled her.
14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you shall not sell her at all for money. You shall not deal with her as a slave, because you have humbled her.
15 And if a man have two wives, the one loved and the other hated, and both the loved and the hated should have born him [children], and the son of the hated should be first-born;
15 If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,
16 then it shall be that whensoever he shall divide by inheritance his goods to his sons, he shall not be able to give the right of the first-born to the son of the loved one, having overlooked the son of the hated, which is the first-born.
16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not give the son of the beloved the rights of the firstborn before the son of the hated, who is the firstborn;
17 But he shall acknowledge the first-born of the hated one to give to him double of all things which shall be found by him, because he is the first of his children, and to him belongs the birthright.
17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all that he has; for he is the beginning of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
18 And if any man has a disobedient and contentious son, who hearkens not to the voice of his father and the voice of his mother, and they should correct him, and he should not hearken to them;
18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,
19 then shall his father and his mother take hold of him, and bring him forth to the elders of his city, and to the gate of the place:
19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city and to the gate of his place.
20 and they shall say to the men of their city, This our son is disobedient and contentious, he hearkens not to our voice, he is a reveller and a drunkard.
20 They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
21 And the men of his city shall stone him with stones, and he shall die; and thou shalt remove the evil one from yourselves, and the rest shall hear and fear.
21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.
22 And if there be sin in any one, [and] the judgment of death [be upon him], and he be put to death, and ye hang him on a tree:
22 If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
23 his body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but ye shall by all means bury it in that day; for every one that is hanged on a tree is cursed of God; and ye shall by no means defile the land which the Lord thy God gives thee for an inheritance.
23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
Cross references (23)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 26:21; Psalm 5:6; Proverbs 28:17; Acts 28:4; Psalm 9:12
- 2 Romans 13:3–4; Deuteronomy 16:18–19
- 3 Numbers 19:2; Philippians 2:8; Jeremiah 31:18; Matthew 11:28–30
- 4 1 Peter 3:18; 1 Peter 2:21–24
- 5 1 Chronicles 23:13; Malachi 2:7; Deuteronomy 10:8; Deuteronomy 19:17; Numbers 6:22–27
- 6 Psalm 73:13; Psalm 26:6; Psalm 51:7; Matthew 27:24–25; Psalm 19:12
- 7 Job 21:21–23; Numbers 5:19–28; Job 21:31–34; 2 Samuel 16:8; Psalm 7:3–4
- 8 Jonah 1:14; 2 Samuel 3:28; Ezekiel 23:3; Ezekiel 23:24–25; 2 Kings 24:4
- 9 Deuteronomy 19:12–13; 2 Kings 10:30–31; Deuteronomy 13:18
- 10 Deuteronomy 20:10–16; Joshua 21:44
- 11 Genesis 29:18–20; Proverbs 6:25; Proverbs 31:30; Genesis 12:14–15; Genesis 6:2
- 12 Ephesians 4:22; 1 Corinthians 11:6; Leviticus 14:9; Numbers 6:9
- 13 Luke 14:26–27; Psalm 45:10–11
- 14 Deuteronomy 22:29; Genesis 34:2; Deuteronomy 22:19; Deuteronomy 22:24; Exodus 21:7–11
- 15 Genesis 29:33; Genesis 29:20; Genesis 29:30–31; Genesis 29:18; 1 Samuel 1:4–5
- 16 1 Chronicles 5:2; 1 Chronicles 26:10; Philippians 4:8; Romans 8:29; Hebrews 12:16–17
- 17 Genesis 49:3; Genesis 25:31–34; 1 Chronicles 5:1–2; Psalm 105:36; Genesis 25:5–6
- 18 Leviticus 19:3; Exodus 20:12; Amos 4:11–12; Hebrews 12:9–11; Proverbs 23:13–14
- 19 Deuteronomy 25:7; Deuteronomy 21:2; Deuteronomy 16:18; Zechariah 13:3
- 20 Proverbs 20:1; Proverbs 23:29–35; Proverbs 23:19–21; Proverbs 29:17; Proverbs 19:26
- 21 Deuteronomy 19:19–20; Deuteronomy 13:10–11; Leviticus 24:16; Deuteronomy 13:5; Deuteronomy 22:21
- 22 John 19:31–38; Acts 26:31; Luke 23:33; Deuteronomy 22:26; Matthew 26:66
- 23 Galatians 3:13; John 19:31; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Leviticus 18:25; Romans 9:3
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