Deuteronomy 21:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked– that has never pulled with the yoke–

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 19:2 : 2 “This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded:‘Instruct the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without blemish, which has no defect and has never carried a yoke.
  • Jer 31:18 : 18 I have indeed heard the people of Israel say mournfully,‘We were like a calf untrained to the yoke. You disciplined us and we learned from it. Let us come back to you and we will do so, for you are the LORD our God.
  • Matt 11:28-30 : 28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy to bear, and my load is not hard to carry.”
  • Phil 2:8 : 8 He humbled himself, by becoming obedient to the point of death– even death on a cross!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 21:4
    89%

    4and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown. There at the wadi they are to break the heifer’s neck.

  • Deut 21:6-7
    2 verses
    87%

    6and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

    7Then they must proclaim,“Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we witnessed the crime.

  • Deut 21:1-2
    2 verses
    84%

    1Laws Concerning Unsolved Murder If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him,

    2your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.

  • Deut 19:10-13
    4 verses
    75%

    10You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

    11However, suppose a person hates someone else and stalks him, attacks him, kills him, and then flees to one of these cities.

    12The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.

    13You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

  • Exod 21:28-32
    5 verses
    75%

    28Laws about Animals“If an ox gores a man or a woman so that either dies, then the ox must surely be stoned and its flesh must not be eaten, but the owner of the ox will be acquitted.

    29But if the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner was warned, and he did not take the necessary precautions, and then it killed a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned and the man must be put to death.

    30If a ransom is set for him, then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

    31If the ox gores a son or a daughter, the owner will be dealt with according to this rule.

    32If the ox gores a male servant or a female servant, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver, and the ox must be stoned.

  • Exod 21:34-36
    3 verses
    74%

    34the owner of the pit must repay the loss. He must give money to its owner, and the dead animal will become his.

    35If the ox of one man injures the ox of his neighbor so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox and divide its proceeds, and they will also divide the dead ox.

    36Or if it is known that the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner did not take the necessary precautions, he must surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his.

  • Num 19:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2“This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded:‘Instruct the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without blemish, which has no defect and has never carried a yoke.

    3You must give it to Eleazar the priest so that he can take it outside the camp, and it must be slaughtered before him.

  • Lev 17:3
    73%

    3“Blood guilt will be accounted to any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp,

  • Num 19:5
    73%

    5Then the heifer must be burned in his sight– its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned.

  • Lev 4:15
    72%

    15the elders of the congregation must lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD, and someone must slaughter the bull before the LORD.

  • Lev 24:21
    72%

    21One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.

  • Deut 13:15
    72%

    15you must by all means slaughter the inhabitants of that city with the sword; annihilate with the sword everyone in it, as well as the livestock.

  • Lev 24:18
    71%

    18One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, life for life.

  • Exod 22:10
    71%

    10If a man gives his neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any beast to keep, and it dies or is injured or is carried away without anyone seeing it,

  • Isa 7:21
    70%

    21At that time a man will keep alive a young cow from the herd and a couple of goats.

  • Deut 19:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5Suppose he goes with someone else to the forest to cut wood and when he raises the ax to cut the tree, the ax head flies loose from the handle and strikes his fellow worker so hard that he dies. The person responsible may then flee to one of these cities to save himself.

    6Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, and kill him, though this is not a capital case since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

  • Deut 22:18
    70%

    18The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish him.

  • Exod 21:14
    70%

    14But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.

  • Num 35:3
    70%

    3Thus they will have towns in which to live, and their grazing lands will be for their cattle, for their possessions, and for all their animals.

  • Deut 20:15
    69%

    15This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

  • Ezek 43:21
    69%

    21You will also take the bull for the sin offering, and it will be burned in the appointed place in the temple, outside the sanctuary.

  • Num 35:27
    69%

    27and the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the town of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer, he will not be guilty of blood,

  • Josh 20:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3Anyone who accidentally kills someone can escape there; these cities will be a place of asylum from the avenger of blood.

    4The one who committed manslaughter should escape to one of these cities, stand at the entrance of the city gate, and present his case to the leaders of that city. They should then bring him into the city, give him a place to stay, and let him live there.

  • Num 19:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.

    17“‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin and pour fresh running water over them in a vessel.

  • Num 19:9
    69%

    9“‘Then a man who is ceremonially clean must gather up the ashes of the red heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept for the community of the Israelites for use in the water of purification– it is a purification for sin.

  • Deut 19:3
    68%

    3You shall build a roadway and divide into thirds the whole extent of your land that the LORD your God is providing as your inheritance; anyone who kills another person should flee to the closest of these cities.

  • Num 35:24
    68%

    24then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.

  • Josh 20:6
    68%

    6He must remain in that city until his case is decided by the assembly and the high priest dies. Then the one who committed manslaughter may return home to the city from which he escaped.”

  • Exod 22:1
    68%

    1Laws about Property(21:37)“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep.

  • Deut 22:26
    68%

    26You must not do anything to the young woman– she has done nothing deserving of death. This case is the same as when someone attacks another person and murders him,

  • Exod 21:12
    68%

    12Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

  • Deut 22:24
    68%

    24you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated his neighbor’s fiancée; in this way you will purge evil from among you.

  • Lev 27:26
    68%

    26Redemption of the Firstborn“‘Surely no man may consecrate a firstborn that already belongs to the LORD as a firstborn among the animals; whether it is an ox or a sheep, it belongs to the LORD.

  • Num 35:12
    68%

    12And they must stand as your towns of refuge from the avenger in order that the killer may not die until he has stood trial before the community.

  • Lev 4:21
    68%

    21He must bring the rest of the bull outside the camp and burn it just as he burned the first bull– it is the sin offering of the assembly.