² Your elders and judges should go to where the ·body [^Lcorpse] was found, and they should measure how far it is to the nearby cities. ³ The elders of the city nearest the body must take a ·young cow [heifer] that has never worked or ·worn [^Lpulled] a yoke, ⁴ and they must lead her down to a ·valley [wadi] that has never been plowed or planted, with a ·stream [wadi] flowing through it. There they must break the ·young cow’s [heifer’s] neck.