The 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.
In context
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. 6Then all the elders of the city nearest the body are to wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi, 7and declare: “Our hands did not shed this blood, and our eyes did not see it done.
