1 “If a murder victim is found lying in a field in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,
2 your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the nearby cities.
3 The elders of the city nearest to the victim are to get a young cow that has not been yoked or used for work.
4 The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream.
5 Then the priests, the sons of Levi, will come forward, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name, and they are to give a ruling in every dispute and case of assault.