Deuteronomy 21:4
ContextNET © | and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, 1 to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown. 2 There at the wadi they are to break the heifer’s neck. |
NIV © | and lead her down to a valley that has not been ploughed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer’s neck. |
NASB © | and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley. |
NLT © | They must lead it to a valley that is neither plowed nor planted with a stream running through it. There they must break the cow’s neck. |
MSG © | The leaders will take the heifer to a valley with a stream, a valley that has never been plowed or planted, and there break the neck of the heifer. |
BBE © | And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken: |
NRSV © | the elders of that town shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the wadi. |
NKJV © | "The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with flowing water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and they shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley. |
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NET © | and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, 1 to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown. 2 There at the wadi they are to break the heifer’s neck. |
NET © Notes |
1 tn The combination “a wadi with flowing water” is necessary because a wadi (נַחַל, nakhal) was ordinarily a dry stream or riverbed. For this ritual, however, a perennial stream must be chosen so that there would be fresh, rushing water. 2 sn The unworked heifer, fresh stream, and uncultivated valley speak of ritual purity – of freedom from human contamination. |