Deuteronomy 21:4

And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer into a rough valley, which has not been tilled and is not sown, and they shall + 21:4 Gr. cut the sinews. i.e. of the neck. kill the heifer in the valley.

LXX2012 (British)

In The King James Version

And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:

In Context

3and it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not laboured, and which has not + 21:3 Gr. drawn. borne a yoke.

5And the priests the Levites shall come, because the Lord God has chosen them to stand by him, and to + 21:5 Gr. his name. Hebraism. bless in his name, and + 21:5 Gr. at their mouth. by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be decided.

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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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