Then your leaders and judges must come out and measure the distance to the towns around the person that was killed.
“In the land that the Lord your God is giving you, a man might be found murdered in a field. But no one knows who killed him.
When you learn which town is nearest to the dead man, the leaders of that town must take a cow from their herds. It must be a cow that never had a calf. And it must be a cow that has never been used for work.