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1 Kad se nađe ubijen čovek u zemlji koju ti daje Gospod Bog tvoj da je naslediš, gde leži u polju, a ne zna se ko ga je ubio,

2 Tada neka iziđu starešine tvoje i sudije tvoje, i neka izmere od ubijenog do gradova koji su oko njega.

3 Pa koji grad bude najbliže ubijenome, starešine onog grada neka uzmu junicu iz goveda, na kojoj se još nije radilo, koja nije vukla u jarmu,

4 I neka odvedu starešine onog grada tu junicu u pustu dolinu gde se ne kopa ni seje, i neka zakolju junicu onde u dolini.

5 Potom neka pristupe sveštenici, sinovi Levijevi; jer njih izabra Gospod Bog tvoj da mu služe i da blagosiljaju u ime Gospodnje, i na njihovim rečima da ostaje svaka raspra i svaka šteta;

6 I sve starešine onog grada koji budu najbliže ubijenome neka operu ruke svoje nad zaklanom junicom u onoj dolini,

7 I tvrdeći neka kažu: Ruke naše nisu prolile ovu krv niti su oči naše videle;

8 Milostiv budi narodu svom Izrailju, koji si iskupio, Gospode, i ne meći pravu krv na narod svoj Izrailja. Tako će se očistiti od one krvi.

9 I ti ćeš skinuti pravu krv sa sebe kad učiniš šta je pravo pred Gospodom.

10 Kad otideš na vojsku na neprijatelje svoje, i preda ih Gospod Bog tvoj u ruke tvoje i zarobiš ih mnogo.

11 I ugledaš u roblju lepu ženu, i omili ti da bi je hteo uzeti za ženu,

12 Odvedi je kući svojoj; i neka obrije glavu svoju i sreže nokte svoje;

13 I neka skine sa sebe haljine svoje u kojima je zarobljena i neka sedi u kući tvojoj, i žali za ocem svojim i za materom svojom ceo mesec dana; potom lezi s njom, i budi joj muž i ona nek ti bude žena.

14 Ako ti posle ne bi bila po volji, pusti je neka ide kuda joj drago, ali nikako da je ne prodaš za novce ni da njom trguješ, jer si je osramotio.

15 Ko bi imao dve žene, jednu milu, a drugu nemilu, pa bi rodila sinove, i mila i nemila, i prvenac bi bio od nemile,

16 Onda kad dođe vreme da podeli sinovima svojim šta ima ne može prvencem učiniti sina od mile preko sina od nemile koji je prvenac;

17 Nego za prvenca neka prizna sina od nemile i dade mu dva dela od svega što ima, je je on početak sile njegove, njegovo je pravo prvenačko.

18 Ko bi imao sina samovoljnog i nepokornog, koji ne sluša oca svog ni matere svoje, i kog oni i karaše pa opet ne sluša,

19 Neka ga uzmu otac i mati, i neka ga dovedu k starešinama grada svog na vrata mesta svog,

20 I neka kažu starešinama grada svog: Ovaj sin naš samovoljan je i nepokoran, na sluša nas, izjelica je i pijanica.

21 Tada svi ljudi onog mesta neka ga zaspu kamenjem da pogine; i tako izvadi zlo iz sebe, da sav Izrailj čuje i boji se.

22 Ko zgreši tako da zasluži smrt, te bude osuđen na smrt i obesiš ga na drvo,

23 Neka ne prenoći telo njegovo na drvetu, nego ga isti dan pogrebi, jer je proklet pred Bogom ko je obešen; zato ne skvrni zemlje koju ti Gospod Bog tvoj daje u nasledstvo.

   

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woman looking to sky

The word "woman" is used a number of different ways in the Bible – as a simple description, as someone connected to a man ("his woman"), as a temptation to the men of Israel (women of other nations) and even as a term of address (Jesus addresses Mary as "woman" twice). There are also various spiritual meanings, and context is important. In most cases, a "woman" in the Bible represents a church, either a true one following the Lord or a false one out to deceive. This follows from the idea that the true character of an organization – or of an individual person – is determined by its goals, its mission, what it cares about most. This is well represented by women, because women are, at their inmost levels, forms of affection and love. Men, by contrast, are forms of thought and intellect, which appear prominent but actually play the secondary role of describing and supporting the defining loves and affections. The most central of a woman's loves and affections is the love of truth. On an individual scale this is central to the union between a wife and a husband: She loves his intellect and ideas, and blends them with her own to produce acts of love and kindness; meanwhile her love inspires him to seek more true ideas and greater wisdom so those acts of love and kindness can be ever better. The relationship between the church and the Lord is different, obviously, because the Lord is perfect love and perfect wisdom in balance, and is ultimately both masculine and feminine. The church is also not specifically feminine, being made up of men and women working in harmony. Even so, the defining aspect of a church is its love for truth, and how it receives ideas from the Lord. So while "woman" sometimes represents a church in general, it can also represents the love of truth that exists in that church, or the love of truth itself. Not all churches are true, of course. The reason the people of Israel were so strongly forbidden to intermarry with the people that surrounded them was that the foreign women represented false churches and false beliefs. And for an Israeli woman to take a foreign husband represented introducing falsity into the Israeli church. Two other uses of "woman" are more limited, primarily to the Book of Genesis. One of them is Eve, the first woman, formed from the rib of Adam. In that story Adam represents the Most Ancient Church, and the woman represents what the Writings call the "proprium," a sense of self, of identity, of control that the Lord gave to people of the church at that time. In a way this fits with the more general representation, because the love of truth is an important way we can feel a sense of power in our own spiritual growth, but the representation of Eve is relatively unique. Much of the rest of Genesis is dealing rather directly with the Lord's own development during his childhood on earth. Since the Lord thought and felt more deeply than we can possibly imagine, the women in this stories – Sarah, Rebecca, Leah, Rachel and others – represent true ideas themselves, rather than affections for truth.