Deuteronomy 21:6

All the elders of the city that is the nearest to the killed man must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

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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

5The priests, descendants of Levi, must come forward, for Yahweh your God has chosen them to serve him and give blessing in the name of Yahweh and to decide every case of dispute and assault by their word.

7and they must answer to the case and say, 'Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

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Cross References

Job 9:30If I washed myself with snow water 1 and made my hands ever so clean, 1

Psalms 26:6I wash my hands in innocence, 1 and I go around your altar, Yahweh, 1

Psalms 51:7Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean; 1 wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 1

Psalms 73:13Surely it is in vain that I have guarded my heart 1 and washed my hands in innocence. 1

Matthew 27:24So when Pilate saw that he could not do anything, but instead a riot was starting, he took water, washed his hands in front of the crowd, and said, “I am innocent of the blood of this innocent man. 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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