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then your elders and your judges shall go out and shall measure the distance to the cities that are around the slain one. And then[a] the nearest city to the slain one, the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd that has not been worked with in the field, that has not pulled a yoke, and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a wadi that flows with water all year[b] and that has not been plowed and has not been sown; then there they shall break the neck of the heifer in the wadi.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 21:3 Literally “And it will happen”
  2. Deuteronomy 21:4 Literally “an ever-flowing wadi”
  3. Deuteronomy 21:4 Literally “they shall break there the neck with respect to the heifer in the ever-flowing wadi”; the Hebrew verb carries the meaning “to break the neck of”