Matthew Poole and continuators on Deuteronomy 21:4
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Deuteronomy21:4
4 And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sowen , and shall strike off the heifers neck there in the valley.
Partly to represent the hard and unprofitable and untutoured heart of the murderer; and partly that such a desert and horrid place might beget an horrour of murder and of the murderer.
To shew what they would and should have done to the murderer if they had found him.
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