Deuteronomy 21:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure the distance to the cities which are around him that is slain;

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then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

Then your elders and judges shall come forth and measure the distance to the cities around him who is slain.

then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

your elders and judges must come out and measure the distances to the cities nearest the body.

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.

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 which the Lord your God gives you to possess, any one is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him,

and the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer which has never been worked and which has not pulled in the yoke.