Numbers 35:33

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Summary

So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

It defileth

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It defileth

and the land is defiled. Therefore I visit the iniquity of it upon it, and the land vomits out her inhabitants.

If a man is found slain in the land which LORD thy God gives thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it not be known who has smitten him,

Notwithstanding, LORD did not turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.

and also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and LORD would not pardon.

They also joined themselves to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

For, behold, LORD comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.

Son of man, say to her, Thou are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

There is nothing but swearing and breaking faith, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery. They break out, and blood touches blood.

And now many nations are assembled against thee, who say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see [our desire] upon Zion.

So then ye testify to yourselves that ye are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

so that the blood of all the prophets that was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,