1 “Suppose someone is found murdered in a field in the land that the Lord your God is going to give you, and you do not know who killed him.
2 Your leaders and judges are to go out and measure the distance from the place where the body was found to each of the nearby towns.
3 Then the leaders of the town nearest to where the body was found are to select a young cow that has never been used for work.
4 They are to take it down to a spot near a stream that never runs dry and where the ground has never been ploughed or planted, and there they are to break its neck.