Deuteronomy 21:2

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2 then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.

Deuteronomy 21:3

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3 And it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke;