Deuteronomy 21:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² 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

² 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

² Then your elders and judges shall come forth and measure the distance to the cities around him who is slain.

American Standard Version (1901)

² 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

² your elders and judges must come out and measure the distances to the cities nearest the body.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² 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.

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;