5. Then the Levitical priests will approach (for the Lord your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name, and to decide every judicial verdict)
6. and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.
7. Then they must proclaim, “Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we witnessed the crime.
8. Do not blame your people Israel whom you redeemed, O Lord, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person.” Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.
9. In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before the Lord.
10. When you go out to do battle with your enemies and the Lord your God allows you to prevail and you take prisoners,
11. if you should see among them an attractive woman whom you wish to take as a wife,