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1 If one slain is found in the land that YHWH your God is giving you to possess, lying in the field, and it is not known who killed him, 2 then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure to the cities that are surrounding the slain one. 3 And it shall be that the city nearest to the slain man, the elders of that city will take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked in it and which has not pulled with a yoke, 4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to an enduring valley, which neither is plowed nor sown, and they shall break the neck there of the heifer in the valley. 5 And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near; for YHWH your God has chosen them to serve and to bless in the name of YHWH, and by their mouth shall be settled every controversy and every assault. 6 And all the elders of that city nearest to the slain one shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley, Deuteronomy 21:1-6, Berean Literal Bible. Public domain.
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