The elders of the city nearest the body are to take a heifer that has never been worked and has never pulled under a yoke,
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, 4and bring it down to a wadi with running water, one that is never plowed or sown, and there in the wadi break the heifer’s neck. 5The priests, the sons of Levi, are to come forward, since Yahweh your God has chosen them to minister to him and to pronounce blessings in the name of Yahweh, and every dispute and every assault is to be settled by their word.
