Deuteronomy 21:7

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

Literal Standard Version

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

8receive atonement for Your people Israel, whom You have ransomed, O YHWH, and do not permit innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel; and the blood has been pardoned to them,

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Cross References

Numbers 5:19And the priest has caused her to swear, and has said to the woman, If no man has lain with you, and if you have not turned aside [to] uncleanness under your husband, be free from these bitter waters which cause the curse;

Job 21:21For what [is] his delight in his house after him, || And the number of his months cut off?

Psalms 7:3O YHWH, my God, if I have done this, || If there is iniquity 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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