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then your elders and your judges are to go out and measure the distance from the person who was killed to each of the surrounding towns.

The elders of the city that is closest to the person who was killed are to take a heifer that has not been worked and has not pulled with a yoke. The elders of that city are to bring the heifer down to a gully that has a flowing stream and that has not been plowed and sown, and they are to break the neck of the heifer there in the gully.

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your elders and judges shall go out and measure the distance from the body to the neighboring towns. Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke(A) and lead it down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer’s neck.

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