Deuteronomy 21:7

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

Leeser Tanakh

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 are nearest unto the slain person shall wash their hands over the heifer, the neck of which is broken in the valley.

8Grant pardon unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O Lord, and lay not innocent blood in the midst of thy people Israel: and the blood shall be forgiven unto them.

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Cross References

Numbers 5:19And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and he shall say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness behind thy husband: then be thou free from these bitter waters that bring the curse.

Job 21:21For what care hath he for his household after him, when the number of his months is all apportioned to him?

Psalms 7:3(7:4) O Lord my God, if I have done this; if there be injustice in my hands;

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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