1 When one is found dead in the land which the Lord thy God gives thee to inherit, lying in the field, and it is not known who has slain him,
2 then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is dead;
3 and it shall be that the elders of the city which is next unto the dead man shall take a heifer, which has not served, and which has not drawn in the yoke;
4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which has neither been plowed nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley.