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Passages on this topic · 9

• Deuteronomy 21:1

  If someone is found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him;

• Deuteronomy 21:2

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

• Deuteronomy 21:3

  It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke.

• Deuteronomy 21:4

  The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.

• Deuteronomy 21:5

  The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in Yahweh’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided.

• Deuteronomy 21:6

  All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

• Deuteronomy 21:7

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

• Deuteronomy 21:8

  Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.

• Deuteronomy 21:9

  So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.