“And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the Lord; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:”
All the elders of that town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi — the ritual of hand-washing (rachatz) performs a symbolic cleansing; the hands that touch the heifer become the medium through which the town's leaders express their innocence and transfer the bloodguilt away from their community.
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