Deuteronomy 21:1-4 ▼

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 are to 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.