“And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:”
And they shall declare: Our hands did not shed this blood, nor were we witnesses to it — the verbal declaration (hitnatzlu) accompanying the hand-washing makes explicit what the ritual implies; the town officially disavows responsibility for the unsolved murder and separates itself from the bloodguilt.
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