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 charge its iniquity upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants:

When one is found slain on the ground which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it -- fallen in a field -- it is not known who hath smitten him,

Only, Jehovah hath not turned back from the fierceness of His great anger with which His anger burned against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh provoked him,

and also the innocent blood that he hath shed, and he filleth Jerusalem with innocent blood, and Jehovah was not willing to forgive.

And they are coupled to Baal-Peor, And eat the sacrifices of the dead,

For, lo, Jehovah is coming out of His place, To charge the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth upon him, And revealed hath the earth her blood, Nor doth she cover any more her slain!'

Son of man, say to it, Thou art a land, It is not cleansed nor rained on in a day of indignation.

Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.

And now, gathered against thee have been many nations, who are saying: 'Let her be defiled, and our eyes look on Zion.'

So that ye testify to yourselves, that ye are sons of them who did murder the prophets;

that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;