Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.
King James Version
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
Holman Bible
your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the nearby cities.
International Standard Version
then let your elders and judges go out and measure the distance from the dead body to the neighboring cities.
A Conservative Version
then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth. And they shall measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain,
American Standard Version
then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
Amplified
then your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the dead person.
Bible in Basic English
Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured;
Darby Translation
then thine elders and thy judges shall go forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain;
Julia Smith Translation
And thy old men and thy judges shall come forth and measure to the cities which are round about him wounded:
King James 2000
Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
Lexham Expanded Bible
then your elders and your judges shall go out and shall measure [the distance] to the cities that [are] around the slain one.
Modern King James verseion
then your elders and your judges shall come forth. And they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is dead.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Then let thine elders and thy judges come forth and meet unto the cities that are round about the slain.
NET Bible
your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.
New Heart English Bible
then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:
The Emphasized Bible
then shall thine elders and thy judges go forth, - and measure unto the cities that are round about the slain;
Webster
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him that is slain:
World English Bible
then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:
Youngs Literal Translation
then have thine elders and thy judges gone out and measured unto the cities which are round about the slain one,
Themes
Blood » Shedding of human » Mode of clearing those accused of
Heifer » An atonement for murder
Murder » Imputed to the nearest city when the murderer was unknown
Interlinear
Zaqen
Shaphat
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 21:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
1 When one is found dead in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit, lying in the field, and it is not known who has slain him, 2 then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one. 3 and it shall be that the elders of the city which is next unto the dead man shall take a heifer, which has not served, and which has not drawn in the yoke;
Cross References
Deuteronomy 16:18-19
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all the gates of thy cities, which the LORD thy God shall give thee throughout thy tribes, and they shall judge the people with just (and righteous) judgment.
Romans 13:3-4
For the magistrates are not a terror unto those who do good, but to the doer of evil. Is thy desire therefore to not fear the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same;