1 “In the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you might find a dead body in a field, but no one knows who killed that person.
2 Your leaders and judges must come out and measure the distance to the towns around the dead body.
3 When you learn which town is nearest to the dead body, the leaders of that town must take a cow from their herds. It must be a cow that never had a calf and that has never been used for work.
4 The leaders of that town must then bring the cow down to a valley with running water. It must be a valley that has never been plowed or had anything planted in it. Then the leaders must break the cow’s neck there in that valley.