Deuteronomy 21:2
Deuteronomy 21:2 Amplified Bible (AMP)
then your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the dead person.
Deuteronomy 21:1-8 The Message (MSG)
If a dead body is found on the ground, this ground that GOD, your God, has given you, lying out in the open, and no one knows who killed him, your leaders and judges are to go out and measure the distance from the body to the nearest cities. The leaders and judges of the city that is nearest the corpse will then take a heifer that has never been used for work, never had a yoke on it. The leaders will take the heifer to a valley with a stream, a valley that has never been plowed or planted, and there break the neck of the heifer. The Levitical priests will then step up. GOD has chosen them to serve him in these matters by settling legal disputes and violent crimes and by pronouncing blessings in GOD’s name. Finally, all the leaders of that town that is nearest the body will wash their hands over the heifer that had its neck broken at the stream and say, “We didn’t kill this man and we didn’t see who did it. Purify your people Israel whom you redeemed, O GOD. Clear your people Israel from any guilt in this murder.”
Deuteronomy 21:2 King James Version (KJV)
then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain
Deuteronomy 21:2 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.
Deuteronomy 21:2 New Century Version (NCV)
Your elders and judges should go to where the body was found, and they should measure how far it is to the nearby cities.
Deuteronomy 21:2 American Standard Version (ASV)
then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain
Deuteronomy 21:2 New International Version (NIV)
your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns.
Deuteronomy 21:2 New King James Version (NKJV)
then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance from the slain man to the surrounding cities.