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, and I will visit the wickedness thereof upon it. And the land shall spew out her inhabiters.

If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, and lieth in the fields, and not known who hath slain him:

Notwithstanding, the LORD turned not from his fierce and great wrath wherewith he was angry against Judah upon all the provocations that Manasseh provoked him.

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

They joined themselves unto Baal-Peor, and ate the offerings of the dead.

For behold, the LORD will go out of his habitation, and visit the wickedness of them that dwell upon earth. The earth also shall disclose her own blood, and shall no more hide those that are slain in her.

"Thou son of man, tell her, 'Thou art an unclean land, which is not rained upon in the day of the cruel wrath:

but swearing, lying, manslaughter, theft, and adultery have gotten the overhand; and one bloodguiltiness followeth another.

Now also are there many people gathered together against thee, saying that Zion is cursed: "We shall see our lust upon her."

So then: ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them, which killed the prophets.

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