Deuteronomy 21:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

then have thine elders and thy judges gone out and measured unto the cities which `are' round about the slain one,

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 16:18-19 : 18 `Judges and authorities thou dost make to thee within all thy gates which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee, for thy tribes; and they have judged the people -- a righteous judgment. 19 Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
  • Rom 13:3-4 : 3 For those ruling are not a terror to the good works, but to the evil; and dost thou wish not to be afraid of the authority? that which is good be doing, and thou shalt have praise from it, 4 for of God it is a ministrant to thee for good; and if that which is evil thou mayest do, be fearing, for not in vain doth it bear the sword; for of God it is a ministrant, an avenger for wrath to him who is doing that which is evil.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 21:1
    86%

    1 `When one is found slain on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it -- fallen in a field -- it is not known who hath smitten him,

  • Deut 21:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

    3 and it hath been, the city which `is' near unto the slain one, even the elders of that city have taken a heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, which hath not drawn in the yoke,

    4 and the elders of that city have brought down the heifer unto a hard valley, which is not tilled nor sown, and have beheaded there the heifer in the valley.

  • Deut 21:6-7
    2 verses
    80%

    6 and all the elders of that city, who are near unto the slain one, do wash their hands over the heifer which is beheaded in the valley,

    7 and they have answered and said, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen --

  • Deut 19:10-14
    5 verses
    79%

    10 and innocent blood is not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance, and there hath been upon thee blood.

    11 `And when a man is hating his neighbour, and hath lain in wait for him, and risen against him, and smitten him -- the life, and he hath died, and he hath fled unto one of these cities,

    12 then the elders of his city have sent and taken him from thence, and given him into the hand of the redeemer of blood, and he hath died;

    13 thine eye hath no pity on him, and thou hast put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it is well with thee.

    14 `Thou dost not remove a border of thy neighbour, which they of former times have made, in thine inheritance, which thou dost inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it.

  • Num 35:19-29
    11 verses
    77%

    19 `The redeemer of blood himself doth put the murderer to death; in his coming against him he doth put him to death.

    20 `And if in hatred he thrust him through, or hath cast `anything' at him by lying in wait, and he dieth;

    21 or in enmity he hath smitten him with his hand, and he dieth; the smiter is certainly put to death; he `is' a murderer; the redeemer of blood doth put the murderer to death in his coming against him.

    22 `And if, in an instant, without enmity, he hath thrust him through, or hath cast at him any instrument, without lying in wait;

    23 or with any stone wherewith he dieth, without seeing, and causeth `it' to fall upon him, and he dieth, and he `is' not his enemy, nor seeking his evil;

    24 then have the company judged between the smiter and the redeemer of blood, by these judgments.

    25 `And the company have delivered the man-slayer out of the hand of the redeemer of blood, and the company have caused him to turn back unto the city of his refuge, whither he hath fled, and he hath dwelt in it till the death of the chief priest, who hath been anointed with the holy oil.

    26 `And if the man-slayer at all go out `from' the border of the city of his refuge whither he fleeth,

    27 and the redeemer of blood hath found him at the outside of the border of the city of his refuge, and the redeemer of blood hath slain the man-slayer, blood is not for him;

    28 for in the city of his refuge he doth dwell till the death of the chief priest; and after the death of the chief priest doth the man-slayer turn back unto the city of his possession.

    29 `And these things have been to you for a statute of judgment to your generations, in all your dwellings:

  • Deut 19:2-7
    6 verses
    76%

    2 three cities thou dost separate for thee in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it.

    3 Thou dost prepare for thee the way, and hast divided into three parts the border of thy land which Jehovah thy God doth cause thee to inherit, and it hath been for the fleeing thither of every man-slayer.

    4 `And this `is' the matter of the man-slayer who fleeth thither, and hath lived: He who smiteth his neighbour unknowingly, and is not hating him heretofore,

    5 even he who cometh in with his neighbour into a forest to hew wood, and his hand hath driven with an axe to cut the tree, and the iron hath slipped from the wood, and hath met his neighbour, and he hath died -- he doth flee unto one of these cities, and hath lived,

    6 lest the redeemer of blood pursue after the man-slayer when his heart is hot, and hath overtaken him (because the way is great), and hath smitten him -- the life, and he hath no sentence of death, for he is not hating him heretofore;

    7 therefore I am commanding thee, saying, Three cities thou dost separate to thee.

  • Num 35:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11 and have prepared to yourselves cities -- cities of refuge they are to you -- then fled thither hath a man-slayer, smiting a person unawares,

    12 and the cities have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer, and the man-slayer doth not die till his standing before the company for judgment.

  • Josh 20:3-6
    4 verses
    74%

    3 for the fleeing thither of a man-slayer smiting life inadvertently, without knowledge; and they have been to you for a refuge from the redeemer of blood.

    4 `When `one' hath fled unto one of these cities, and hath stood `at' the opening of the gate of the city, and hath spoken in the ears of the elders of that city his matter, then they have gathered him into the city unto them, and have given to him a place, and he hath dwelt with them.

    5 `And when the redeemer of blood doth pursue after him, then they do not shut up the man-slayer into his hand, for without knowledge he hath smitten his neighbour, and is not hating him hitherto;

    6 and he hath dwelt in that city till his standing before the company for judgment, till the death of the chief priest who is in those days -- then doth the man-slayer turn back and hath come unto his city, and unto his house, unto the city whence he fled.'

  • Exod 21:12-14
    3 verses
    74%

    12 `He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death;

    13 as to him who hath not laid wait, and God hath brought to his hand, I have even set for thee a place whither he doth flee.

    14 `And when a man doth presume against his neighbour to slay him with subtilty, from Mine altar thou dost take him to die.

  • Josh 20:9
    73%

    9 These have been cities of meeting for all the sons of Israel, and for a sojourner who is sojourning in their midst, for the fleeing thither of any one smiting life inadvertently, and he doth not die by the hand of the redeemer of blood till his standing before the company.

  • Deut 4:42
    73%

    42 for the fleeing thither of the man-slayer, who slayeth his neighbour unknowingly, and he is not hating him heretofore, and he hath fled unto one of these cities, and he hath lived:

  • Deut 17:7-9
    3 verses
    72%

    7 the hand of the witnesses is on him, in the first place, to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

    8 `When anything is too hard for thee for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke -- matters of strife within thy gates -- then thou hast risen, and gone up unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix,

    9 and hast come in unto the priests, the Levites, and unto the judge who is in those days, and hast inquired, and they have declared to thee the word of judgment,

  • Deut 20:15
    71%

    15 So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

  • Lev 24:21
    70%

    21 `And he who smiteth a beast repayeth it, and he who smiteth `the life of' man is put to death;

  • Num 35:15
    69%

    15 To sons of Israel, and to a sojourner, and to a settler in their midst, are these six cities for a refuge, for the fleeing thither of any one smiting a person unawares.

  • Exod 22:8
    69%

    8 `If the thief is not found, then the master of the house hath been brought near unto God, whether he hath not put forth his hand against the work of his neighbour;

  • Deut 21:9
    69%

    9 and thou dost put away the innocent blood out of thy midst, for thou dost that which `is' right in the eyes of Jehovah.

  • Deut 19:17
    69%

    17 then have both the men who have the strife stood before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges who are in those days,

  • Deut 25:1
    69%

    1 `When there is a strife between men, and they have come nigh unto the judgment, and they have judged, and declared righteous the righteous, and declared wrong the wrong-doer,

  • Deut 13:15
    69%

    15 `Thou dost surely smite the inhabitants of that city by the mouth of the sword; devoting it, and all that `is' in it, even its cattle, by the mouth of the sword;

  • Ezek 11:6
    69%

    6 Ye multiplied your wounded in this city, And filled its out-places with the wounded.