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.