Deuteronomy 21:7

and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen it.

Brenton Septuagint

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 all the elders of that city who draw nigh to the slain man shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer which was slain in the valley;

8Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O Lord, that innocent blood + 21:8 Gr. may not be in thy people.may not be charged on thy people Israel: and the blood shall be atoned for to them.

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Cross References

Numbers 5:19And the priest shall adjure her, and shall say to the woman, If no one has lain with thee, and if thou hast not transgressed so as to be polluted, being under the power of thy husband, be free from this water of the conviction that causes the curse.

Job 21:21For his desire is in his house with him, and the number of his months has been suddenly cut off.

Psalms 7:3Lest at any time the enemy seize my soul as a lion, while there is none to ransom, 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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