Deuteronomy 21:6-7

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  21:7 Then they must proclaim, “Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we ³  witnessed the crime. ⁴ 

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¹ tn Heb “slain [one].”

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

³ tn Heb “our eyes.” This is a figure of speech known as synecdoche in which the part (the eyes) is put for the whole (the entire person).

⁴ tn Heb “seen”; the implied object (the crime committed) has been specified in the translation for clarity.