Deuteronomy 21:4-6

Common English Bible

⁴ and those elders will take the cow down to a ravine with a flowing stream—one that has not been plowed or planted—and they will break the cow’s neck right there in the river valley. ⁵ Then the priests, the descendants of Levi, will step forward because the Lord your God selected them to minister for him and to bless in the Lord’s name, and because every legal dispute and case of assault is decided by them. ⁶ All the elders of the city closest to the corpse will wash their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the river valley.