and the elders of that town shall bring the heifer down to an everflowing wadi, which is not tilled or sown. There, in the wadi, they shall break the heifer’s neck.
The priests, sons of Levi, shall come forward; for your God יהוה has chosen them for divine service and to pronounce blessing in the name of יהוה, and every lawsuit and case of assault assault Cf. 17.8. Or “skin affection”; cf. 24.8. is subject to their ruling.
Absolve, יהוה, Your people Israel whom You redeemed, and do not let guilt for the blood of the innocent remain among Your people Israel.” And they will be absolved of bloodguilt.
Word-by-Word Analysis
כפר
300
לעמך
160
ישראל
541
אשרפדית
995
יהוה
26
ואלתתן
887
דם
44
נקי
160
בקרב
304
עמך
130
ישראל
541
ונכפר
356
להם
75
הדם
49
Deuteronomy 21:9
Gematria: 3208
ואתהתבערהדםהנקימקרבךכיתעשההישרבעינייהוהס
Thus you will remove from your midst guilt for the blood of the innocent, for you will be doing what is right in the sight of יהוה.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואתה
412
תבער
672
הדם
49
הנקי
165
מקרבך
362
כיתעשה
805
הישר
515
בעיני
142
יהוהס
86
Deuteronomy 21:10
Gematria: 2493
כיתצאלמלחמהעלאיביךונתנויהוהאלהיךבידךושביתשביו
When you [an Israelite warrior] take the field against your enemies, and your God יהוה delivers them into your power and you take some of them captive,
Word-by-Word Analysis
כיתצא
521
למלחמה
153
עלאיביך
143
ונתנו
512
יהוה
26
אלהיך
66
בידך
36
ושבית
718
שביו
318
Deuteronomy 21:11
Gematria: 4479
וראיתבשביהאשתיפתתארוחשקתבהולקחתלךלאשה
and you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you desire her and would take her [into your household] as your wife,
Word-by-Word Analysis
וראית
617
בשביה
319
אשת
701
יפתתאר
1091
וחשקת
814
בה
7
ולקחת
544
לך
50
לאשה
336
Deuteronomy 21:12
Gematria: 3884
והבאתהאלתוךביתךוגלחהאתראשהועשתהאתצפרניה
you shall bring her into your household, and she shall trim her hair, pare her nails,
and discard her captive’s garb. She shall spend a month’s time in your household lamenting her father and mother; after that you may come to her and thus become her husband, and she shall be your wife.
Then, should you no longer want her, you must release her outright. You must not sell her for money: since you had your will of her, you must not enslave her.
If a householder householder See the first note at 1.31. has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, but the first-born is the son of the unloved one—
when he wills his property to his sons, he may not treat as first-born the son of the loved one in disregard of the son of the unloved one who is older.
Instead, he must accept the first-born, the son of the unloved one, and allot to him a double portion of all he possesses; since he is the first fruit of his vigor, the birthright is his due.
If a householder householder See the first note at 1.31. has a wayward and defiant son, who does not heed his father or mother and does not obey them even after they discipline him,
Word-by-Word Analysis
כייהיה
60
לאיש
341
בן
52
סורר
466
ומורה
257
איננו
117
שמע
410
בקול
138
אביו
19
ובקול
144
אמו
47
ויסרו
282
אתו
407
ולא
37
ישמע
420
אליהם
86
Deuteronomy 21:19
Gematria: 2680
ותפשובואביוואמווהוציאואתואלזקניעירוואלשערמקמו
his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the public place of his community.
Thereupon his town’s council ” Taking Heb. ’anshe ha-‘ir as a technical term; NJPS “men of the town,” trad. “men of the city.” See the Dictionary under ’ish. shall stone him to death. Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst: all Israel will hear and be afraid.
Translation Notes
*town’s council — Lit. “participants whose involvement defines the depicted situation of the town.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ורגמהו
260
כלאנשי
411
עירו
286
באבנים
105
ומת
446
ובערת
678
הרע
275
מקרבך
362
וכלישראל
597
ישמעו
426
ויראוס
283
Deuteronomy 21:22
Gematria: 3242
וכייהיהבאישחטאמשפטמותוהומתותליתאתועלעץ
If any party is guilty of a capital offense and is put to death, and you impale the body on a stake,
you must not let the corpse remain on the stake overnight, but must bury it the same day. For an impaled body is an affront to God: you shall not defile the land that your God יהוה is giving you to possess.