1. “In the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you might find a dead body in a field, but no one knows who killed that person.
2. Your leaders and judges must come out and measure the distance to the towns around the dead body.
3. When you learn which town is nearest to the dead body, the leaders of that town must take a cow from their herds. It must be a cow that never had a calf and that has never been used for work.
4. The leaders of that town must then bring the cow down to a valley with running water. It must be a valley that has never been plowed or had anything planted in it. Then the leaders must break the cow’s neck there in that valley.