Deuteronomy 21:4 (Septuagint)

²thine elders and thy judges shall come forth, and shall measure the distances of the cities round about the slain man:

³and it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not labored, and which has not borne a yoke.

— Deuteronomy 21:4 —

⁵And the priests the Levites shall come, because the Lord God has chosen them to stand by him, and to bless in his name, and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be decided.

⁶And all the elders of that city who draw nigh to the slain man shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer which was slain in the valley;