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 its wickedness on it, and the land itself vomits out those who live in it.

If one is found dead in the land which Jehovah your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it is not known who has killed him,

But Jehovah did not turn from the heat 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 which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which Jehovah would not pardon.

And they joined themselves to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead,

For behold, Jehovah comes out of His place to punish the people of the earth for their iniquity; the earth also shall reveal her blood, and shall no more cover her dead.

Son of man, say to her: You are a land not being cleansed, nor rained on in the day of disgust.

There is lying, and swearing, and killing, and stealing, and the committing of adultery; and blood touches blood.

Now also many nations are gathered against you, who say, Let her be defiled, and let our eyes look on Zion.

Therefore you are witnesses to yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets;

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