“If, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess, a body is found lying in open country, and it is not known who struck the person down,
Deuteronomy 21:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 then your elders and your judges shall come out to measure the distances to the towns that are near the body. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Then your elders and judges shall come forth and measure the distance to the cities around him who is slain. American Standard Version (1901) then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: Common English Bible your elders and judges must come out and measure the distances to the cities nearest the body. Catholic Public Domain Version your judges and those greater by birth shall go out and measure, from the place of the corpse, the distance to each of the surrounding cities. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Thy ancients and judges shall go out, and shall measure from the place where the body lieth the distance of every city round about. |
“If, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess, a body is found lying in open country, and it is not known who struck the person down,
The elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked, one that has not pulled in the yoke;