Deuteronomy 21:6
The elders from the closest town must wash their hands over the young cow whose neck was broken,
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
In Context
7and they must say, ‘We did not murder this person [MTY], and we did not see who did it.
Cross References
Job 9:30If I washed myself with snow or cleansed my hands with lye/soap to get rid of my guilt,
Psalms 26:6Yahweh, I wash my hands to show that I ◄am innocent/have not done what was wrong►. As I join with others marching around your altar,
Psalms 51:7Purify me from the guilt of my sins, and after that happens, I will be clean in my inner being; cleanse me, and then in my inner being I will be ◄whiter than snow/very clean►.
Psalms 73:13So, God, I think it is useless that I have [RHQ] always done what you want me to, and that I have not sinned.
Matthew 27:24Pilate realized that he was accomplishing nothing. He saw that instead, the people were starting to riot. So he took a basin of water and washed his hands as the crowd was watching. He said, “ By washing my hands I am showing you that if this man dies [MTY], it is your fault, not mine!”
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 →