Verse 2

Deuteronomy 21:2

World English Bible, British Edition

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

Original Language Text

hebrew

וְ/יָצְא֥וּ זְקֵנֶ֖י/ךָ וְ/שֹׁפְטֶ֑י/ךָ וּ/מָדְדוּ֙ אֶל הֶ֣/עָרִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֖ר סְבִיבֹ֥ת הֶ/חָלָֽל

English Translation

And your elders and your judges shall go out and measure to the cities that are around the slain one.

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Chapter 21 Context

1 If someone is found slain in the land which the LORD your God (Elohim) gives you to possess, lying i... Focus ↗

2 then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are arou...

3 It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the... Focus ↗

4 The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither... Focus ↗

5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them the LORD your God (Elohim) has chosen to mini... Focus ↗

6 All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer... Focus ↗

7 They shall answer and say, “Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. Focus ↗

8 Forgive, LORD, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood amongst yo... Focus ↗

9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from amongst you, when you shall do that which is right in... Focus ↗

10 When you go out to battle against your enemies, and the LORD your God (Elohim) delivers them into yo... Focus ↗

11 and see amongst the captives a beautiful woman, and you are attracted to her, and desire to take her... Focus ↗

12 then you shall bring her home to your house. She shall shave her head and trim her nails. Focus ↗

13 She shall take off the clothing of her captivity, and shall remain in your house, and bewail her fat... Focus ↗

14 It shall be, if you have no delight in her, then you shall let her go where she desires; but you sha... Focus ↗

15 If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both... Focus ↗

16 then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not g... Focus ↗

17 but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the hated, by giving him a double portion of all... Focus ↗

18 If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of... Focus ↗

19 then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city an... Focus ↗

20 They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey o... Focus ↗

21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from amon... Focus ↗

22 If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, Focus ↗

23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he... Focus ↗

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