Deuteronomy 21:3
Deuteronomy 21:1-8 The Message (MSG)
If a dead body is found on the ground, this ground that GOD, your God, has given you, lying out in the open, and no one knows who killed him, your leaders and judges are to go out and measure the distance from the body to the nearest cities. The leaders and judges of the city that is nearest the corpse will then take a heifer that has never been used for work, never had a yoke on it. The leaders will take the heifer to a valley with a stream, a valley that has never been plowed or planted, and there break the neck of the heifer. The Levitical priests will then step up. GOD has chosen them to serve him in these matters by settling legal disputes and violent crimes and by pronouncing blessings in GOD’s name. Finally, all the leaders of that town that is nearest the body will wash their hands over the heifer that had its neck broken at the stream and say, “We didn’t kill this man and we didn’t see who did it. Purify your people Israel whom you redeemed, O GOD. Clear your people Israel from any guilt in this murder.”
Deuteronomy 21:3 King James Version (KJV)
and it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke
Deuteronomy 21:3 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
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
Deuteronomy 21:3 New Century Version (NCV)
The elders of the city nearest the body must take a young cow that has never worked or worn a yoke
Deuteronomy 21:3 American Standard Version (ASV)
and it shall be, that the city which is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke
Deuteronomy 21:3 New International Version (NIV)
Then the elders of the town nearest the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked and has never worn a yoke
Deuteronomy 21:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
And it shall be that the elders of the city nearest to the slain man will take a heifer which has not been worked and which has not pulled with a yoke.
Deuteronomy 21:3 Amplified Bible (AMP)
It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the dead man shall take a heifer of the herd, one which has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke