Deuteronomy 21:7

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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 21:7 King James Version (KJV)

and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

Deuteronomy 21:7 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)

and they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.

Deuteronomy 21:7 New Century Version (NCV)

They should declare: “We did not kill this person, and we did not see it happen.

Deuteronomy 21:7 American Standard Version (ASV)

and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

Deuteronomy 21:7 New International Version (NIV)

and they shall declare: “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done.

Deuteronomy 21:7 New King James Version (NKJV)

Then they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands have not shed this blood, nor have our eyes seen it.

Deuteronomy 21:7 Amplified Bible (AMP)

and they shall respond, and say, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.

Deuteronomy 21:7 New Living Translation (NLT)

Then they must say, ‘Our hands did not shed this person’s blood, nor did we see it happen.

Deuteronomy 21:7 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)

and they shall testify, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it shed.