Deuteronomy 21:6
And all the Elders of that citie that came neere to the slayne man, shall wash their hands ouer the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
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In Context
7And shall testifie, and say, Our handes haue not shed this blood, neither haue our eies seene it.
Cross References
Job 9:30If I wash my selfe with snowe water, and purge mine hands most cleane,
Psalms 26:6I will wash mine handes in innocencie, O Lord, and compasse thine altar,
Psalms 51:7Purge me with hyssope, and I shalbe cleane: wash me, and I shalbe whiter then snowe.
Psalms 73:13Certainely I haue clensed mine heart in vaine, and washed mine hands in innocencie.
Matthew 27:24When Pilate saw that he auailed nothing, but that more tumult was made, he tooke water and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this iust man: looke you to it.
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 →