Deuteronomy 21:2

Your elders and judges must come and measure the distance from the body to the surrounding towns.

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Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

In Context

1Someone may be found murdered, lying in a field in the country that the Lord your God is giving you to own, and nobody knows who killed them.

3Then the elders of the town that's found to be nearest to the body shall take a cow that has never been put under a yoke or used for work.

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Cross References

Romans 13:3For rulers don't frighten those who do right, but those who do wrong. If you don't want to live in fear of the authorities, then do what is right, and you'll have their approval.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 21:2-10

Undetected Murder. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: 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: 3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 4 And the elders of… Read the whole commentary →

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