Your leaders and judges are to go out and measure the distance from the place where the body was found to each of the nearby towns.

"Appoint judges and other officials in every town that the LORD your God gives you. These men are to judge the people impartially.

But if the dead man's brother does not want to marry her, she is to go before the town leaders and say, 'My husband's brother will not do his duty; he refuses to give his brother a descendant among the people of Israel.'

Then if anyone still insists on prophesying, his own father and mother will tell him that he must be put to death, because he claimed to speak the LORD's word, but spoke lies instead. When he prophesies, his own father and mother will stab him to death.