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your leaders and judges must go and measure the distance from the body to each of the neighboring cities. When it has been determined which city is nearest the body, the leaders from that city must choose a heifer that has never been put to work and never worn a yoke.[a] The leaders of that city will bring the heifer down to a river, to a location where the land hasn’t been plowed or planted. At the river they must break the heifer’s neck.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 21:3 A yoke is a wooden bar placed over the necks of work animals so that they can pull plows or carts.

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