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Deuteronomy 21:2
then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:
Deuteronomy 21:2 · New Heart English Bible
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Deuteronomy 21:2 in other translations
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 distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.
then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.
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In context
1 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;
2 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:
3 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;
4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the Lord your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of the Lord; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.
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