Deuteronomy 21:6
and all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley:
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
In Context
7and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
Cross References
Job 9:30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Psalms 26:6I will wash mine hands in innocency; so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
Psalms 51:7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Psalms 73:13Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocency;
Matthew 27:24So when Pilate saw that he prevailed nothing, but rather that a tumult was arising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man: see ye 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 →