Deuteronomy 21:7

They shall answer 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 that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.

8Forgive, LORD, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood amongst your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.

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Cross References

Numbers 5:19The priest shall cause her to take an oath and shall tell the woman, “If no man has lain with you, and if you haven’t gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband’s authority, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

Job 21:21For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

Psalms 7:3LORD, 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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