Deuteronomy 21:2
Good News Translation
Your leaders and judges are to go out and measure the distance from the place where the body was found to each of the nearby towns.

New Revised Standard Version
then your elders and your judges shall come out to measure the distances to the towns that are near the body.

Contemporary English Version
The judges and other leaders from the towns around there must find out what town is the closest to where the body was found.

New American Bible
your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distances to the cities that are in the neighborhood of the corpse.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy ancients and judges shall go out, and shall measure from the place where the body lieth the distance of every city round about:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Deuteronomy 16:18,19 Thou shalt appoint judges and magistrates in all thy gates, which the Lord thy God shall give thee, in all thy tribes: that they may judge the people with just judgment, . . .

Romans 13:3,4 For princes are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good: and thou shalt have praise from the same. . . .

Context
The Atonement for an Unsolved Murder
1When there shall be found in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee, the corpse of a man slain, and it is not known who is guilty of the murder, 2Thy ancients and judges shall go out, and shall measure from the place where the body lieth the distance of every city round about:3And the ancients of that city which they shall perceive to be nearer than the rest, shall take a heifer of the herd, that hath not drawn in the yoke, nor ploughed the ground,…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 21:1
When there shall be found in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee, the corpse of a man slain, and it is not known who is guilty of the murder,

Deuteronomy 21:3
And the ancients of that city which they shall perceive to be nearer than the rest, shall take a heifer of the herd, that hath not drawn in the yoke, nor ploughed the ground,

Deuteronomy 21:1
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