“If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,”
Deuteronomy 21:1 (BSB)
Context Reading
1If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him, 2your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities. 3Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,