Deuteronomy 21:1

If someone is found killed in the land that Yahweh your God is giving you to possess, lying in the field, and it is not known who has attacked him;

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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:

In Context

2then your elders and your judges must go out, and they must measure to the cities that are around him who has been killed.

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Cross References

Psalms 5:6You will destroy liars; 1 Yahweh despises violent and deceitful men. 1

Proverbs 28:17If a man is guilty because he has shed someone's blood, 1 he will be a fugitive until death 1 and no one will help him. 1

Acts 28:4When the native people saw the animal hanging from his hand, they said one to another, “This man certainly is a murderer who escaped from the sea, yet justice does not permit him to live.”

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 21:1

In this chapter provision is made, I. For the putting away of the guilt of blood from the land, when he that shed it had fled from justice, ver. 1-9 . II. For the preserving of the honour of a captive maid, ver. 10-14 . III. For the securing of the right of a first-born son, though he were not a favourite, ver. 15-17 . IV. For the restraining and punishing of a rebellious son, ver. 18-21 . V. For the maintaining of the honour of human bodies, which must not be hanged in chains, but decently buried, even the bodies… Read the whole commentary →

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