1 “When you are in the land the lord your God is giving you, someone may be found murdered in a field, and you don’t know who committed the murder.
2 In such a case, your elders and judges must measure the distance from the site of the crime to the nearby towns.
3 When the nearest town has been determined, that town’s elders must select from the herd a heifer that has never been trained or yoked to a plow.
4 They must lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and that has a stream running through it. There in the valley they must break the heifer’s neck.