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. ⁴ They must lead the cow down to a valley where no one has ploughed the ground or planted seed. There must be a stream of water in the valley. There they must break the cow's neck.