Deuteronomy 21:7
and they must say, ‘We did not murder this person [MTY], and we did not see who did it.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
In Context
6The elders from the closest town must wash their hands over the young cow whose neck was broken,
Cross References
Numbers 5:19The priest must require her to solemnly declare that she will tell the truth. Then he must say to her, “Has another man had sex [EUP] with you? Have you faithfully slept only with your husband or not? If you have not slept with another man, nothing bad will happen to you if you drink the water.
Job 21:21After wicked people are dead, they are not at all concerned [RHQ] about what happens to their families [MTY].
Psalms 7:3Yahweh my God, if I have done anything that is wrong,
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 →