“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;”
The elders of that town shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the wadi — the location (a valley with flowing water, uncultivated) represents liminal sacred space; the water suggests purification and the removal of blood-guilt through symbolic action.
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