申命记 21:1

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

暗殺懸案的條例“在耶和華你的　神賜給你作產業的地上，如果發現有被殺的人，倒臥在田野，又不知道是誰殺死他的，

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
在 耶 和 华 ─ 你 　 神 所 赐 你 为 业 的 地 上 ， 若 遇 见 被 杀 的 人 倒 在 田 野 ， 不 知 道 是 谁 杀 的 ，

Contextual Overview

¹ Suppose someone is found murdered, lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you as your own, and no one knows who killed the person. ² Your elders and judges should go to where the body was found, and they should measure how far it is to the nearby cities. ³ The elders of the city nearest the body must take a young cow that has never worked or worn a yoke, ⁴ and they must lead her down to a valley that has never been plowed or planted, with a stream flowing through it. There they must break the young cow's neck. ⁵ The priests, the sons of Levi, should come forward, because they have been chosen by the Lord your God to serve him and to give blessings in the Lord 's name. They are the ones who decide cases of quarreling and attacks. ⁶ Then all the elders of the city nearest the murdered person should wash their hands over the young cow whose neck was broken in the valley. ⁷ They should declare: "We did not kill this person, and we did not see it happen. ⁸ Lord , remove this sin from your people Israel, whom you have saved. Don't blame your people, the Israelites, for the murder of this innocent person." And so the murder will be paid for. ⁹ Then you will have removed from yourselves the guilt of murdering an innocent person, because you will be doing what the Lord says is right.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 5:6, Psalms 9:12, Proverbs 28:17, Isaiah 26:21, Acts 28:4

Reciprocal: Genesis 9:5 - and at Exodus 21:29 - his owner also Numbers 35:33 - it defileth 2 Samuel 3:28 - guiltless 2 Samuel 14:9 - and the king 2 Samuel 21:9 - before the Lord 1 Kings 21:8 - the elders

Cross-References

Genesis 17:16
I will bless her and give her a son, and you will be the father. She will be the mother of many nations. Kings of nations will come from her."

Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, Sarah your wife will have a son, and you will name him Isaac. I will make my agreement with him to be an agreement that continues forever with all his descendants.

Genesis 17:21
But I will make my agreement with Isaac, the son whom Sarah will have at this same time next year."

Genesis 18:10
Then the Lord said, "I will certainly return to you about this time a year from now. At that time your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was listening at the entrance of the tent which was behind him.

Genesis 18:14
Is anything too hard for the Lord ? No! I will return to you at the right time a year from now, and Sarah will have a son."

Genesis 21:17
God heard the boy crying, and God's angel called to Hagar from heaven. He said, "What is wrong, Hagar? Don't be afraid! God has heard the boy crying there.

Genesis 21:20
God was with the boy as he grew up. Ishmael lived in the desert and became an archer.

Genesis 50:24
Joseph said to his brothers, "I am about to die, but God will take care of you. He will lead you out of this land to the land he promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob."

Exodus 3:16
"Go and gather the elders and tell them this: ‘The Lord , the God of your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me. He said, I care about you, and I have seen what has happened to you in Egypt.

Exodus 4:31
and the Israelites believed. When they heard that the Lord was concerned about them and had seen their troubles, they bowed down and worshiped him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

If one be found slain,.... After public war with an enemy, Moses proceeds to speak of a private quarrel and fight of one man with another, in which one is slain, as Aben Ezra observes:

in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it; where murders might be committed more secretly, and remain undiscovered, when they came to live in separate cities, towns, and villages, with fields adjacent to them, than now encamped together:

lying in the field; where the quarrel begun, and where the fight was fought: or, however, where the murderer met with his enemy, and slew him, and left him; it being common for duels to be fought, and murders committed in a field; the first murder in the world was committed in such a place, Genesis 4:8. The Targum of Jonathan is,

"not hidden under an heap, not hanging on a tree, nor swimming on the face of the waters;''

which same things are observed in the Misnah i, and gathered from some words in the text:

in the land, and so not under a heap;

lying, and so not hanging;

in the field, and so not swimming on the water:

and it be not known who hath slain him; the parties being alone, and no witnesses of the fact, at least that appear; for, if it was known, the heifer was not beheaded, later mentioned k; and one witness in this case was sufficient, and even one that was not otherwise admitted.

i Sotah, c. 9. sect. 2. k Maimon. Hilchot Rotzeach, c. 9. sect. 11, 12.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXI

If a man be found slain in a field, and the cause of his death

be unknown, the murder shall be expiated by the sacrifice of a

heifer in an uncultivated valley, 1-4.

The rites to be used on the occasion, 5-9.

The ordinance concerning marriage with a captive, 10-14.

The law relative to the children of the hated and beloved wives:

if the son of the hated wife should be the first-born he shall

not be disinherited by the son of the beloved wife, but shall

have a double portion of all his father's goods, 15-18.

The law concerning the stubborn and rebellious son, who, when

convicted, is to be stoned to death, 19-21.

Of the person who is to be hanged, 22.

His body shall not be left on the tree all night; every one that

is hanged on a tree is accursed of God, 23.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXI