Deuteronomy 21:1-3

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Rules about murder

21 In the land that the Lord your God is giving to you, you may find someone's dead body lying in a field. Someone has killed him but you do not know who the murderer is. ² Your leaders and your judges must then go to the field. They must measure how far the place is from the nearest towns. ³ Then the leaders from the town that is nearest to the body must take a young cow that has never done work on a farm.