“Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:”
Your elders and your judges shall come out to measure the distances to the towns that are near the body; the elders of the town nearest to the body shall take a heifer that has never been worked, one that has not pulled the yoke — the measurement (middah) determines which town bears responsibility; the selection of an unworked heifer connects the animal to innocence (it has not been used) and represents the town's own unsullied status.
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