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.

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King 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.

Deuteronomy 21:2 Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:1

“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 21:3

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;