Deuteronomy 21:7

And shall say: Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

In Context

6And the ancients of that city shall come to the person slain, and shall wash their hands over the heifer that was killed in the valley,

8Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O Lord, and lay not innocent blood to their charge, in the midst of thy people Israel. And the guilt of blood shall be taken from them:

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Cross References

Numbers 5:19And he shall adjure her, and shall say: If another man hath not slept with thee, and if thou be not defiled by forsaking thy husband's bed, these most bitter waters, on which I have heaped curses, shall not hurt thee.

Job 21:21For what is it to him what befalleth his house after him: and if the number of his months be diminished by one half?

Psalms 7:3Lest at any time he seize upon my soul like a lion, while there is no one to redeem me, nor to save.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 21:2-10

Undetected Murder. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: 2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: 3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 4 And the elders of… Read the whole commentary →

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