Deuteronomy 21:6

21:6 and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse ¹  must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley. ² 

Deuteronomy 21:3

21:3 Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse ³  must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked – that has never pulled with the yoke –

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¹ tn Heb “slain [one].”

² tn Heb “wadi,” a seasonal watercourse through a valley.

³ tn Heb “slain [one].”