If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land Yahweh your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,
In context
1If someone is found slain, lying in a field in the land Yahweh your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him, 2your elders and judges are to go out and measure the distance from the body to the surrounding cities. 3The elders of the city nearest the body are to take a heifer that has never been worked and has never pulled under a yoke,
