Deuteronomy 21:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns.

New Living Translation
In such a case, your elders and judges must measure the distance from the site of the crime to the nearby towns.

English Standard Version
then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.

Berean Study Bible
your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.

New American Standard Bible
then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the one who was killed.

NASB 1995
then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.

NASB 1977
then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.

Amplified Bible
then your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the dead person.

Christian Standard Bible
your elders and judges are to come out and measure the distance from the victim to the nearby cities.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the nearby cities.

Contemporary English Version
The judges and other leaders from the towns around there must find out what town is the closest to where the body was found.

Good News Translation
Your leaders and judges are to go out and measure the distance from the place where the body was found to each of the nearby towns.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
your leaders and judges must go and measure the distance from the body to each of the neighboring cities.

International Standard Version
then let your elders and judges go out and measure the distance from the dead body to the neighboring cities.

NET Bible
your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

New King James Version
then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance from the slain man to the surrounding cities.

King James 2000 Bible
Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

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

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

American King James Version
Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him that is slain:

American Standard Version
then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

A Faithful Version
Then your elders and your judges shall come forth. And they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is dead.

Darby Bible Translation
then thine elders and thy judges shall go forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain;

English Revised Version
then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

Webster's Bible Translation
Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him that is slain:

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Then thine Elders & thy Iudges shal come forth, and measure vnto the cities that are round about him that is slayne.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Then thine elders and thy iudges shal come foorth, and measure vnto the cities that are rounde about hym that is slayne:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
then shal thy Elders & iudges go forth, and meet from the slayne vnto the cities that lye rounde aboute.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
Then let thine elders and thy iudges come forth ad meet vnto the cities that are rounde aboute the slayne.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
then your elderly and yours [of those] judging have gone out and measured to the cities which [are] around the slain one,

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

Smith's Literal Translation
And thy old men and thy judges shall come forth and measure to the cities which are round about him wounded:

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thy ancients and judges shall go out, and shall measure from the place where the body lieth the distance of every city round about:

Catholic Public Domain Version
your judges and those greater by birth shall go out and measure, from the place of the corpse, the distance to each of the surrounding cities.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Your Elders and your Judges shall go out and they shall measure the towns which are around him who was killed:

Lamsa Bible
Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure the distance to the cities which are round about him that is slain;

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
thine elders and thy judges shall come forth, and shall measure the distances of the cities round about the slain man:
















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