Deuteronomy 21:6

and all [the] elderly of that city, who are near to the slain one, wash their hands over the heifer which is beheaded in the valley,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

In Context

5And the priests, sons of Levi, have come near—for your God YHWH has fixed on them to serve Him and to bless in the Name of YHWH, and by their mouth is every strife and every stroke—

7and they have answered and said, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen—

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Cross References

Job 9:30If I have washed myself with snow-water, || And purified my hands with soap,

Psalms 26:6I wash my hands in innocence, || And I go around Your altar, O YHWH.

Psalms 51:7You cleanse me with hyssop and I am clean, || Wash me, and I am whiter than snow.

Psalms 73:13Only—a vain thing! I have purified my heart, || And I wash my hands in innocence,

Matthew 27:24And Pilate having seen that it profits nothing, but rather a tumult is made, having taken water, he washed the hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent from the blood of this Righteous One; you will see [to it] yourselves”;

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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