Deuteronomy 21:3

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Num 19:2 : 2 "This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded: Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, [and] on which never came yoke.
  • Jer 31:18 : 18 I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus], You have chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn me, and I shall be turned; for you are Yahweh my God.
  • Matt 11:28-30 : 28 "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
  • Phil 2:8 : 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself, becoming obedient to death, yes, the death of the cross.

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  • Deut 21:4
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    4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.

  • Deut 21:6-7
    2 verses
    87%

    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;

    7 and they shall answer and say, "Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

  • Deut 21:1-2
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    84%

    1 If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;

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

  • Deut 19:10-13
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    10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

    11 But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;

    12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

    13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

  • Exod 21:28-32
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    28 "If a bull gores a man or a woman to death, the bull shall surely be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the bull shall not be held responsible.

    29 But if the bull had a habit of goring in the past, and it has been testified to its owner, and he has not kept it in, but it has killed a man or a woman, the bull shall be stoned, and its owner shall also be put to death.

    30 If a ransom is laid on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is laid on him.

    31 Whether it has gored a son or has gored a daughter, according to this judgment it shall be done to him.

    32 If the bull gores a male servant or a female servant, thirty shekels of silver shall be given to their master, and the ox shall be stoned.

  • Exod 21:34-36
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    34 the owner of the pit shall make it good. He shall give money to its owner, and the dead animal shall be his.

    35 "If one man's bull injures another's, so that it dies, then they shall sell the live bull, and divide its price; and they shall also divide the dead animal.

    36 Or if it is known that the bull was in the habit of goring in the past, and its owner has not kept it in, he shall surely pay bull for bull, and the dead animal shall be his own.

  • Num 19:2-3
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    2 "This is the statute of the law which Yahweh has commanded: Speak to the children of Israel, that they bring you a red heifer without spot, in which is no blemish, [and] on which never came yoke.

    3 You shall give her to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth outside of the camp, and one shall kill her before his face:

  • Lev 17:3
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    3 Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills a bull, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,

  • Num 19:5
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    5 One shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

  • Lev 4:15
    72%

    15 The elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh; and the bull shall be killed before Yahweh.

  • Lev 24:21
    72%

    21 He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

  • Deut 13:15
    72%

    15 you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein and its livestock, with the edge of the sword.

  • Lev 24:18
    71%

    18 He who strikes an animal mortally shall make it good, life for life.

  • Exod 22:10
    71%

    10 "If a man delivers to his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep, and it dies or is injured, or driven away, no man seeing it;

  • Isa 7:21
    70%

    21 It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep;

  • Deut 19:5-6
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    5 as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to chop wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the handle, and lights on his neighbor, so that he dies; he shall flee to one of these cities and live:

    6 lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.

  • Deut 22:18
    70%

    18 The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him;

  • Exod 21:14
    70%

    14 If a man schemes and comes presumptuously on his neighbor to kill him, you shall take him from my altar, that he may die.

  • Num 35:3
    70%

    3 The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their animals.

  • Deut 20:15
    69%

    15 Thus you shall do to all the cities which are very far off from you, which are not of the cities of these nations.

  • Ezek 43:21
    69%

    21 You shall also take the bull of the sin offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, outside of the sanctuary.

  • Num 35:27
    69%

    27 and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

  • Josh 20:3-4
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    69%

    3 that the manslayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

    4 He shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city. They shall take him into the city with them, and give him a place, that he may live among them.

  • Num 19:16-17
    2 verses
    69%

    16 "Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

    17 "For the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

  • Num 19:9
    69%

    9 "A man who is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up outside of the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin offering.

  • Deut 19:3
    68%

    3 You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.

  • Num 35:24
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    24 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

  • Josh 20:6
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    6 He shall dwell in that city until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city he fled from.'"

  • Exod 22:1
    68%

    1 "If a man steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it, or sells it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

  • Deut 22:26
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    26 but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;

  • Exod 21:12
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    12 "One who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death,

  • Deut 22:24
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    24 then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn't cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor's wife: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

  • Lev 27:26
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    26 "'Only the firstborn among animals, which is made a firstborn to Yahweh, no man may dedicate it; whether an ox or sheep, it is Yahweh's.

  • Num 35:12
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    12 The cities shall be to you for refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer not die, until he stands before the congregation for judgment.

  • Lev 4:21
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    21 He shall carry forth the bull outside the camp, and burn it as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.