2your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns.


In Context

1 If a man is found slain, lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

2 your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns.

3 Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke

4 and lead her down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer's neck.

Deuteronomy 21:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:2Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which [are] round about him that is slain:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:2Thy ancients and judges shall go out, and shall measure from the place where the body lieth the distance of every city round about:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:2then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:2then thine elders and thy judges shall go forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:2then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:2Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him that is slain:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:2then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:2then have thine elders and thy judges gone out and measured unto the cities which are round about the slain one,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:2Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him that is slain: