Deuteronomy 21:6
and, all the elders of that city who are nearest unto the slain, shall bathe their hands over the heifer that hath been beheaded in the ravine,
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
7and shall respond, and say,—Our hands, shed not this blood, neither did, our eyes, see [the deed].
Cross References
Job 9:30Though I bathe myself in snow water, and cleanse, in cleanness itself, my hands,
Psalms 26:6I will bathe, in pureness, my hands,—so will I go in procession around thine altar, O Yahweh;
Psalms 51:7Wilt thou cleanse me from sin with hyssop, That I may be pure? Wilt thou wash me, That I may be whiter, than snow?
Psalms 73:13Altogether in vain, Have I cleansed my heart, And bathed in pureness, my hands;
Matthew 27:24And Pilate, seeing, that, nothing, it availed, but rather, a tumult, was arising, taking water, washed his hands of it before the multitude, saying—Innocent, am I, of the blood of this man,—Ye, shall see to it for 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 →