Deuteronomy 21:1-3

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

21 If one is found slain in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it is not known who has killed him,

² Then your elders and judges shall come forth and measure the distance to the cities around him who is slain.

³ And the city which is nearest to the slain man, the elders of that city shall take a heifer which has never been worked, never pulled in the yoke,