Deuteronomy 21:2

If that happens, your elders and judges must go out to where that person’s corpse was found and measure the distance from there to each of the nearby towns.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

1“Suppose someone has been murdered in a field in the land that Yahweh our God is giving to you, and you do not know who killed that person.

3Then the elders in the town that is closest to where the corpse was found must select a young cow that has never been used for doing work.

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Cross References

Romans 13:3What rulers do is not to cause people who do good deeds to be afraid. Instead, what they do is to cause people who do evil to be afraid. So, if any of you [RHQ] wants to be unafraid of officials, do what is good! If you(sg) do good, they will commend you instead of punishing you!

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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