Deuteronomy 21:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

Common English Bible

⁴ and those elders will take the cow down to a ravine with a flowing stream—one that has not been plowed or planted—and they will break the cow’s neck right there in the river valley.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ And they shall lead it into a rough and stony valley, one which has never been tilled or sown. And in that place, they shall cut the neck of the calf.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ And they shall bring her into a rough and stony valley, that never was ploughed, nor sown. And there they shall strike off the head of the heifer.

Deuteronomy 21:4 Cross References

Ezekiel 36:9

For behold, I am for you, and I will turn to you, and you shall be tilled and sown;

Deuteronomy 21:3

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.

Deuteronomy 21:5

And the priests the sons of Levi shall come forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister to him and to bless in the name of the Lord, and by their word every dispute and every assault shall be settled.

1 Peter 3:18

For Christ also died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit;

1 Samuel 6:7

Now then, take and prepare a new cart and two milch cows upon which there has never come a yoke, and yoke the cows to the cart, but take their calves home, away from them.