Deuteronomy 21:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² then your elders and your judges shall go out, and they shall measure the distance from the slain man to the cities round about.

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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

“When anyone is found slain, lying in the field in the land which יהוה  your Elohim is giving you to possess, and it is not known who smote him,

Deuteronomy 21:3

“And it shall be that the elders of the city nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer which has not been worked and which has not pulled with a yoke,