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 became defiled; therefore, I visited its iniquity upon it, and the land itself vomited out her inhabitants.

When one is found dead in the land which the LORD thy God gives thee to inherit, lying in the field, and it is not known who has slain him,

Even with all this the 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 to wrath.

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

They also joined themselves unto Baalpeor and ate the sacrifices for the dead.

For, behold, the LORD comes out of his place to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against himself: the earth also shall disclose her blood and shall no longer cover her slain.

Son of man, say unto her, Thou art not clean land, nor art thou sprinkled with rain in the day of indignation.

By swearing and lying and murdering and stealing and committing adultery, they prevailed, and blood touches blood.

But now many nations are gathered against thee that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eyes see our desire carried out upon Zion.

Therefore ye are witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

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