Deuteronomy 21:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken:

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  • 1 Pet 2:21-24 : 21 This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps: 22 Who did no evil, and there was no deceit in his mouth: 23 To sharp words he gave no sharp answer; when he was undergoing pain, no angry word came from his lips; but he put himself into the hands of the judge of righteousness: 24 He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.
  • 1 Pet 3:18 : 18 Because Christ once went through pain for sins, the upright one taking the place of sinners, so that through him we might come back to God; being put to death in the flesh, but given life in the Spirit;

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  • Deut 21:1-3
    3 verses
    89%

    1 If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death:

    2 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;

    3 And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke;

  • Deut 21:5-7
    3 verses
    88%

    5 Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged:

    6 And all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man, washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley,

    7 Will say, This death is not the work of our hands and our eyes have not seen it.

  • Lev 4:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14 When the sin which they have done comes to light, then let all the people give an ox for a sin-offering, and take it before the Tent of meeting.

    15 And let the chiefs of the people put their hands on its head before the Lord, and put the ox to death before the Lord.

  • Num 19:2-6
    5 verses
    77%

    2 This is the rule of the law which the Lord has made, saying, Give orders to the children of Israel to give you a red cow without any mark on her, and on which the yoke has never been put:

    3 Give her to Eleazar the priest and let him take her outside the tent-circle and have her put to death before him.

    4 Then let Eleazar the priest take some of her blood on his finger, shaking the blood seven times in the direction of the front of the Tent of meeting:

    5 And the cow is to be burned before him, her skin and her flesh and her blood and her waste are to be burned:

    6 Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning.

  • Lev 4:4
    75%

    4 And he is to take the ox to the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord; and put his hand on its head and put it to death before the Lord.

  • Lev 4:10-12
    3 verses
    72%

    10 As it is taken from the ox of the peace-offering; and it is to be burned by the priest on the altar of burned offerings.

    11 And the skin of the ox and all its flesh, with its head and its legs and its inside parts and its waste,

    12 All the ox, he is to take away outside the circle of the tents into a clean place where the burned waste is put, and there it is to be burned on wood with fire.

  • Deut 19:12
    72%

    12 The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.

  • Deut 13:15
    72%

    15 Then take up arms against the people of that town and give it up to the curse, with all its cattle and everything in it.

  • Lev 4:19-21
    3 verses
    72%

    19 And he is to take off all its fat, burning it on the altar.

    20 Let him do with the ox as he did with the ox of the sin-offering; and the priest will take away their sin and they will have forgiveness.

    21 Then let the ox be taken away outside the tent-circle, that it may be burned as the other ox was burned; it is the sin-offering for all the people.

  • Num 19:17
    71%

    17 And for the unclean, they are to take the dust of the burning of the sin-offering, and put flowing water on it in a vessel:

  • Lev 17:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 If any man of Israel puts to death an ox or a lamb or a goat, in or outside the tent-circle;

    4 And has not taken it to the door of the Tent of meeting, to make an offering to the Lord, before the Lord's House, its blood will be on him, for he has taken life, and he will be cut off from among his people:

  • Exod 21:28-29
    2 verses
    71%

    28 If an ox comes to be the cause of death to a man or a woman, the ox is to be stoned, and its flesh may not be used for food; but the owner will not be judged responsible.

    29 But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death.

  • Exod 21:31
    71%

    31 If the death of a son or of a daughter has been caused, the punishment is to be in agreement with this rule.

  • Lev 1:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15 And the priest is to take it to the altar, and after its head has been twisted off, it is to be burned on the altar, and its blood drained out on the side of the altar:

    16 And he is to take away its stomach, with its feathers, and put it down by the east side of the altar, where the burned waste is put:

  • Exod 21:35-36
    2 verses
    70%

    35 And if one man's ox does damage to another man's ox, causing its death, then the living ox is to be exchanged for money, and division made of the price of it, and of the price of the dead one.

    36 But if it is common knowledge that the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and its owner has not kept it under control, he will have to give ox for ox; and the dead beast will be his.

  • Jer 34:19
    70%

    19 The rulers of Judah and the rulers of Jerusalem, the unsexed servants and the priests and all the people of the land who went between the parts of the ox,

  • Exod 29:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11 And you are to put the ox to death before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting.

    12 Then take some of the blood of the ox, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, draining out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

  • Deut 15:21
    70%

    21 But if it has any mark on it, if it is blind or has damaged legs, or if there is anything wrong with it, it may not be offered to the Lord your God.

  • Num 19:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8 And he who does the burning is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.

    9 Then let a man who is clean take the dust of the burned cow and put it outside the tent-circle in a clean place, where it is to be kept for the children of Israel and used in making the water which takes away what is unclean: it is a sin-offering.

  • Deut 22:18
    70%

    18 Then the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment;

  • Deut 21:19
    70%

    19 Then let his father and mother take him to the responsible men of the town, to the public place;

  • Deut 17:1
    70%

    1 No ox or sheep which has a mark on it or is damaged in any way may be offered to the Lord your God: for that is disgusting to the Lord your God.

  • Ezek 43:21
    70%

    21 And you are to take the ox of the sin-offering, and have it burned in the special place ordered for it in the house, outside the holy place.

  • Lev 5:8
    70%

    8 And let him take them to the priest, who will first give the sin-offering, twisting off its head from its neck, but not cutting it in two;

  • Lev 27:11
    70%

    11 And if it is any unclean beast, of which offerings are not made to the Lord, then let him take the beast before the priest;

  • Lev 22:21
    70%

    21 And whoever makes a peace-offering to the Lord, in payment of an oath or as a free offering, from the herd or the flock, if it is to be pleasing to the Lord, let it be free from any mark or damage.

  • Deut 22:21
    70%

    21 Then they are to make the girl come to the door of her father's house and she will be stoned to death by the men of the town, because she has done evil and put shame on Israel, by acting as a loose woman in her father's house: so you are to put away evil from among you.

  • Isa 27:10
    69%

    10 For the strong town is without men, an unpeopled living-place; and she has become a waste land: there the young ox will take his rest, and its branches will be food for him.

  • Lev 22:23
    69%

    23 An ox or a lamb which has more or less than its natural parts, may be given as a free offering; but it will not be taken in payment of an oath.

  • Deut 22:15
    69%

    15 Then let the girl's father and mother put before the responsible men of the town, in the public place, signs that the girl was a virgin:

  • Isa 7:21
    69%

    21 And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a young cow and two sheep;