Atonement for Unsolved Murders
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"If in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess someone is found slain, lying in the open country, and it is not known who killed him,
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then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure the distance to the surrounding cities.
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And the elders of the city that is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer 1that has never been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke.
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And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
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Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen 2them to minister to him and to bless in the name of the LORD, and 3by their word every dispute and every assault shall be settled.
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And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain man 4shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,
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and they shall testify, 'Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it shed.
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Accept atonement, O LORD, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and 5do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.'
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So 6you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.
Almeida Atualizada (Portuguese) AA
Deuteronômio 21:1
Se na terra que o Senhor teu Deus te dá para a possuíres, for encontrado algum morto caído no campo, sem que se saiba quem o matou,
King James Version KJV
New King James Version NKJV
Deuteronomy 21:1
"If anyone is found slain, lying in the field in the land which the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,
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Deuteronômio 21:1
“Se alguém for encontrado morto no campo, na terra que o SENHOR, o seu Deus, dá a vocês para dela tomarem posse, sem que se saiba quem o matou,
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(English Standard Version - The Holy Bible Online)