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    <div class="book bkPSA">
        <div class="chapter ch48" data-usfm="PSA.48">
            <div class="label">48</div><div class="cl"><span class="heading">Psalm 48</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft"><span class="heading">In Hebrew texts 48:1-14 is numbered 48:2-15.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="d"><span class="content">A song. A psalm of the Sons of Korah.</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.48.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Great is the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and most worthy of praise,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.48.1"><span class="content">in the city of our God, his holy mountain.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PSA.48.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.48.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Beautiful in its loftiness,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.48.2"><span class="content">the joy of the whole earth,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.48.2"><span class="content">like the heights of Zaphon</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:2 </span><span class="fq">Zaphon </span><span class="ft">was the most sacred mountain of the Canaanites.</span></span></span><span class="content"> is Mount Zion,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.48.2"><span class="content">the city of the Great King.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PSA.48.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.48.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">God is in her citadels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.48.3"><span class="content">he has shown himself to be her fortress.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PSA.48.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.48.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">When the kings joined forces,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.48.4"><span class="content">when they advanced together,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PSA.48.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.48.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">they saw her and were astounded;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.48.5"><span class="content">they fled in terror.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PSA.48.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.48.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Trembling seized them there,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.48.6"><span class="content">pain like that of a woman in labor.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PSA.48.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.48.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You destroyed them like ships of Tarshish</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.48.7"><span class="content">shattered by an east wind.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PSA.48.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.48.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">As we have heard,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.48.8"><span class="content">so we have seen</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.48.8"><span class="content">in the city of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.48.8"><span class="content">in the city of our God:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.48.8"><span class="content">God makes her secure</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.48.8"><span class="content">forever.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">48:8 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew has </span><span class="fqa">Selah </span><span class="ft">(a word of uncertain meaning) here.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PSA.48.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.48.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Within your temple, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.48.9"><span class="content">we meditate on your unfailing love.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PSA.48.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.48.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Like your name, O God,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.48.10"><span class="content">your praise reaches to the ends of the earth;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.48.10"><span class="content">your right hand is filled with righteousness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PSA.48.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.48.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Mount Zion rejoices,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.48.11"><span class="content">the villages of Judah are glad</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.48.11"><span class="content">because of your judgments.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PSA.48.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.48.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Walk about Zion, go around her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.48.12"><span class="content">count her towers,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PSA.48.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.48.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">consider well her ramparts,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.48.13"><span class="content">view her citadels,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.48.13"><span class="content">that you may tell of them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.48.13"><span class="content">to the next generation.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PSA.48.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.48.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">For this God is our God for ever and ever;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PSA.48.14"><span class="content">he will be our guide even to the end.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch21" data-usfm="DEU.21">
            <div class="label">21</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Atonement for an Unsolved Murder</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.21.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who the killer was, </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.21.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.21.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.21.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">and 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&#8217;s neck. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.21.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The Levitical priests shall step forward, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> and to decide all cases of dispute and assault. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.21.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley, </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.21.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">and they shall declare: &#8220;Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.21.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent person.&#8221; Then the bloodshed will be atoned for, </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.21.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">and you will have purged from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Marrying a Captive Woman</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.21.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.21.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">When you go to war against your enemies and the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.21.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife. </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.21.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.21.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">and 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. </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.21.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">If 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.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Right of the Firstborn</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.21.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.21.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">If 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, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.21.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">when 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. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.21.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">He 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&#8217;s strength. The right of the firstborn belongs to him.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Rebellious Son</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.21.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.21.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">If 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, </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.21.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.21.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">They shall say to the elders, &#8220;This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.21.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Then 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.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Various Laws</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.21.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.21.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">If someone guilty of a capital offense is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole, </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.21.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">you 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&#8217;s curse. You must not desecrate the land the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God is giving you as an inheritance.</span></span></div>
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        <div class="chapter ch22" data-usfm="DEU.22">
            <div class="label">22</div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="DEU.22.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">If you see your fellow Israelite&#8217;s ox or sheep straying, do not ignore it but be sure to take it back to its owner. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="DEU.22.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">If they do not live near you or if you do not know who owns it, take it home with you and keep it until they come looking for it. Then give it back. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.22.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Do the same if you find their donkey or cloak or anything else they have lost. Do not ignore it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="DEU.22.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.22.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">If you see your fellow Israelite&#8217;s donkey or ox fallen on the road, do not ignore it. Help the owner get it to its feet.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="DEU.22.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.22.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">A woman must not wear men&#8217;s clothing, nor a man wear women&#8217;s clothing, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God detests anyone who does this.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="DEU.22.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="DEU.22.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">If you come across a bird&#8217;s nest beside the road, either in a tree or on the ground, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.22.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="DEU.22.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.22.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">When you build a new house, make a parapet around your roof so that you may not bring the guilt of bloodshed on your house if someone falls from the roof.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="DEU.22.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.22.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not plant two kinds of seed in your vineyard; if you do, not only the crops you plant but also the fruit of the vineyard will be defiled.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">be forfeited to the sanctuary</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="DEU.22.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.22.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="DEU.22.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.22.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="DEU.22.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.22.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Marriage Violations</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="DEU.22.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="DEU.22.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="DEU.22.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, &#8220;I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="DEU.22.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">then the young woman&#8217;s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin. </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="DEU.22.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Her father will say to the elders, &#8220;I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="DEU.22.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Now he has slandered her and said, &#8216;I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.&#8217; But here is the proof of my daughter&#8217;s virginity.&#8221; Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="DEU.22.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">and the elders shall take the man and punish him. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.22.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They shall fine him a hundred shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:19 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 2 1/2 pounds or about 1.2 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver and give them to the young woman&#8217;s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="DEU.22.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="DEU.22.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the young woman&#8217;s virginity can be found, </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.22.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">she shall be brought to the door of her father&#8217;s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done an outrageous thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father&#8217;s house. You must purge the evil from among you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="DEU.22.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.22.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">If a man is found sleeping with another man&#8217;s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="DEU.22.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="DEU.22.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.22.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">you shall take both of them to the gate of that town and stone them to death&#8212;the young woman because she was in a town and did not scream for help, and the man because he violated another man&#8217;s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="DEU.22.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="DEU.22.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">But if out in the country a man happens to meet a young woman pledged to be married and rapes her, only the man who has done this shall die. </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="DEU.22.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Do nothing to the woman; she has committed no sin deserving death. This case is like that of someone who attacks and murders a neighbor, </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DEU.22.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">for the man found the young woman out in the country, and though the betrothed woman screamed, there was no one to rescue her.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="DEU.22.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="DEU.22.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="DEU.22.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">he shall pay her father fifty shekels</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:29 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 1 1/4 pounds or about 575 grams</span></span></span><span class="content"> of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="DEU.22.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="DEU.22.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">A man is not to marry his father&#8217;s wife; he must not dishonor his father&#8217;s bed.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">22:30 </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts this verse (22:30) is numbered 23:1.</span></span></span></span></div>
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