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Deuteronomy 21:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Deuteronomy 21:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 21
Sacrifice for Untraceable Killing.[a] 1 If the body of a dead man is found lying on the ground of the land that the Lord, your God, has given you to possess, and it is not known who killed him, 2 have your elders and judges go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns.
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- Deuteronomy 21:1 The final section of the Deuteronomic law brings together prescriptions that cannot be reduced to any order; they deal with all sorts of matters and have fairly diverse origins. Two more clearly defined groups can, however, be distinguished: laws regarding the family and social norms.
