“If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him:”
If, in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, a body is found lying in the open country, and it is not known who struck the person down — the discovery of an unresolved murder (a body in the field with unknown killer) creates a legal problem: the land is defiled by unavenged bloodshed, and the community must perform a purification ritual.
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