Deuteronomy 21:1
If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Care had been taken by some preceding laws for the vigorous and effectual persecution of a wilful murderer (Deu 19:11 etc.), the putting of whom to death was the putting away of the guilt of blood…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
If one be found So Deu 17:2; Deu 24:7, also Sg. passages.
which the Lord thy God is to give thee see on Deu 19:14.
lying Heb. fallingbut with perfect sense, fallen, cp. Num 24:4; Jdg 3:25; Jdg…
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