“And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:”
Then the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to minister to him and to pronounce blessings in the name of the LORD, and by their decision all disputes and all assaults shall be settled — the priestly role in this ritual (evorot hakohenim) brings covenantal legitimacy to the town's purification; the priest's blessing-pronouncing function extends to resolving the spiritual breach created by the unsolved murder.
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