“If someone is found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him,”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Deuteronomy 21 contains 23 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.