² then your elders and your judges shall go out and shall measure the distance to the cities that are around the slain one. ³ 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, ⁴ 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]