Lying in the field Or, in the city, or any place: only the field is named as the place where such murders are most commonly committed. Thy elders and judges Those of thy elders who are judges: the judges or rulers of all the neighbouring cities. Measure Unless it be evident which city is nearest; for then measuring was superfluous. Which hath not drawn in the yoke A fit representation of the murderer, in whose stead it was killed, who would not bear the yoke of God's laws. A type also of Christ, who was under no yoke but what he had voluntarily taken upon himself.
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Deuteronomy 21:1-3
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:
2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:
3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;