Deuteronomy 21:7

and 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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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

6All 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;

8Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not put guilt for innocent bloodshed in the midst of your people Israel.' Then the bloodshed will be forgiven them.

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Cross References

Numbers 5:19The priest will put the woman under an oath and say to her, 'If no other man had sexual relations with you, and if you have not gone astray and committed impurity, then you will be free from this bitter water that can bring a curse.

Job 21:21For what does he care about his family after him 1 when the number of his months is cut off? 1

Psalms 7:3Yahweh my God, if I have done this, 1 and there is guilt on my hands— 1

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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