Atonement for an Unsolved Murder 1 If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who the killer was, 2 your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns. 3 Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke 4 and lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer’s neck. 5 The Levitical priests shall step forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord and to decide all cases of dispute and assault. 6 Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley, 7 and they shall declare: “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done. 8 Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, Lord, and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent person.” Then the bloodshed will be atoned for, 9 and you will have purged from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

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The following new state laws have been approved by the Oklahoma Legislature and signed into law by Gov. Kevin Stitt • HB 3462 by Reps.

DURANT — Former Texas Ranger and Baseball Hall of Famer Ivan “Pudge” Rodriguez will be at Choctaw Casino & Resort – Durant for a meet-and-greet with fans on July 12. Fans can meet Rodriguez and the first 200 will have an opportunity to receive a photo autographed by the Texas Ranger legend.

For more than a year, residents along the Kiamichi River in Southwestern Latimer County and Northeast Pushmataha County have been opposing a state and federal hydro-electric project on the upper Kiamichi River.

Soper’s annual Homecoming celebration is scheduled for July 6. This year’s Homecoming –– Keeping it Groovy –– will kick off with parade registration at 7 a.m.

The Miss Rodeo Oklahoma Scholarship Pageant was held in conjunction with the Woodward Elks Rodeo in Woodward, Okla. Crowned as the new Miss Rodeo Oklahoma is Cassidy Heskett of Pawnee. The new Miss Rodeo Oklahoma Teen is Lana Carter of Stillwater. The new Miss Rodeo Oklahoma Princess is Nadalee Goedereis of Watts. Two Miss Rodeo Oklahoma Sweethearts were also crowned.

‘Courtesy of the red, white and blue’