Numbers 35:34 Themes and Topics

Lift up your eyes to the bare hills and see. You have had sex with men in every place. You sat by the roadside waiting for them like a nomad in the desert. You have defiled (corrupted) (profaned) the land with your prostitution and wickedness. Verse Concepts

They shed innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land became polluted with blood. Verse Concepts

I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and its produce. You came and made my land unclean. You made my heritage disgusting. Verse Concepts

The land has become unclean. I will punish it for its sins. The land will vomit out those who live in it. Verse Concepts

Do not defile the land where you are living! I am Jehovah and I live among the people of Israel. Verse Concepts

The inhabitants of the earth pollute the earth. They transgress laws and violate statutes. They break the everlasting covenant. Verse Concepts

First, I will have them pay twice as much for their wickedness and their sin, because they have polluted my land. They have filled my property with the lifeless statues of their detestable and disgusting idols. Verse Concepts

Get up and go because this is not your resting-place. Uncleanness brings on destruction, a painful destruction. Verse Concepts

Do not become unclean in any of these ways. By these practices all the nations that I am forcing out of your way have become unclean. The land has become unclean. I will punish it for its sins. The land will vomit out those who live in it. Live by my standards, and obey my rules. Neither you nor any foreigner should ever do any of these disgusting things. read more.
The people of the land who were there before you did all these disgusting things. As a result, the land has become unclean. If you make the land unclean, it will vomit you out as it has vomited out the people who were there before you. Whoever does any of these disgusting things must be excluded from the people. Therefore you must follow my instructions. Do not live by the standards of the people who lived there before you. What they do is disgusting. Never become unclean that way. I am Jehovah your God!'

If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered. Do not defile the land where you are living! I am Jehovah and I live among the people of Israel.