If one be found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;
Deuteronomy 21:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain: Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
If one be found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;
and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;