Deuteronomy 21:2

Catholic Public Domain Version

your judges and those greater by birth shall go out and measure, from the place of the corpse, the distance to each of the surrounding cities.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 21:1

"When there will have been found in the land, which the Lord your God will give to you, the corpse of a man who has been killed, and it is not known who is guilty of the murder,

Deuteronomy 21:3

And in whichever one they perceive to be closer than the others, the elders shall take a calf from the herd, one which has not pulled with a yoke, nor tilled with a plow.