Deuteronomy 21:6

American Standard Version (1901)

And all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 26:6 : 6 I will wash my hands in innocency: So will I compass thine altar, O Jehovah;
  • Ps 73:13 : 13 Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency;
  • Jer 2:22 : 22 For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord Jehovah.
  • Matt 27:24-25 : 24 So when Pilate saw that he prevailed nothing, but rather that a tumult was arising, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this righteous man; see ye [to it] . 25 And all the people answered and said, His blood [be] on us, and on our children.
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 [ being] only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
  • Ps 51:2 : 2 Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.
  • Ps 51:7 : 7 Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
  • Ps 51:14 : 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; [And] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
  • Job 9:30 : 30 If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;
  • Ps 19:12 : 12 Who can discern [his] errors? Clear thou me from hidden [faults] .

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 21:1-5
    5 verses
    88%

    1If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath smitten him;

    2then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

    3and it shall be, that the city which is nearest unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke;

    4and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.

    5And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Jehovah thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.

  • Deut 21:7
    81%

    7and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

  • Lev 4:15
    78%

    15And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock before Jehovah; and the bullock shall be killed before Jehovah.

  • Num 19:2-6
    5 verses
    75%

    2This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without spot, wherein is no blemish, [and] upon which never came yoke.

    3And ye shall give her unto Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring her forth without the camp, and one shall slay her before his face:

    4and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.

    5And one shall burn the heifer in his sight; her skin, and her flesh, and her blood, with her dung, shall he burn:

    6and the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

  • Deut 19:12-13
    2 verses
    74%

    12then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

    13Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

  • Num 19:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

    16And whosoever in the open field toucheth one that is slain with a sword, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

    17And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the sin-offering; and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

  • Deut 17:7
    72%

    7The hand of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So thou shalt put away the evil from the midst of thee.

  • Num 19:8-11
    4 verses
    72%

    8And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.

    9And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place; and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water for impurity: it is a sin-offering.

    10And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.

    11He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days:

  • Lev 4:4
    71%

    4And he shall bring the bullock unto the door of the tent of meeting before Jehovah; and he shall lay his hand upon the head of the bullock, and kill the bullock before Jehovah.

  • Lev 17:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it without the camp,

    4and hath not brought it unto the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as an oblation unto Jehovah before the tabernacle of Jehovah: blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

  • Lev 3:13
    71%

    13and he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it before the tent of meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.

  • Lev 3:2
    70%

    2And he shall lay his hand upon the head of his oblation, and kill it at the door of the tent of meeting: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

  • Num 35:24
    70%

    24then the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

  • Num 8:12
    70%

    12And the Levites shall lay their hands upon the heads of the bullocks: and offer thou the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering, unto Jehovah, to make atonement for the Levites.

  • Lev 1:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

    5And he shall kill the bullock before Jehovah: and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall present the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is at the door of the tent of meeting.

  • Lev 1:15
    70%

    15And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be drained out on the side of the altar;

  • Jer 34:19
    69%

    19the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, that passed between the parts of the calf;

  • 2 Chr 29:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22So they killed the bullocks, and the priests received the blood, and sprinkled it on the altar: and they killed the rams, and sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and sprinkled the blood upon the altar.

    23And they brought near the he-goats for the sin-offering before the king and the assembly; and they laid their hands upon them:

  • Lev 6:27
    69%

    27Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy; and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in a holy place.

  • Num 31:19
    69%

    19And encamp ye without the camp seven days: whosoever hath killed any person, and whosoever hath touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, ye and your captives.

  • Lev 1:11
    69%

    11And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before Jehovah: and Aaron's sons, the priests, shall sprinkle its blood upon the altar round about.

  • Num 35:33
    69%

    33So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood, it polluteth the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

  • Num 6:9
    69%

    9And if any man die very suddenly beside him, and he defile the head of his separation; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day shall he shave it.

  • Exod 29:10
    69%

    10And thou shalt bring the bullock before the tent of meeting: and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the bullock.

  • Deut 19:10
    69%

    10that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

  • Lev 3:8
    69%

    8and he shall lay his hand upon the head of his oblation, and kill it before the tent of meeting: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.

  • Exod 29:12
    69%

    12And thou shalt take of the blood of the bullock, and put it upon the horns of the altar with thy finger; and thou shalt pour out all the blood at the base of the altar.

  • Deut 21:9
    69%

    9So shalt thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

  • Lev 24:21
    69%

    21And he that killeth a beast shall make it good: and he that killeth a man shall be put to death.

  • 2 Chr 35:11
    69%

    11And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled [the blood which they received] of their hand, and the Levites flayed them.

  • Lev 27:11
    69%

    11And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer an oblation unto Jehovah, then he shall set the beast before the priest;

  • Exod 21:36
    69%

    36Or if it be known that the ox was wont to gore in time past, and its owner hath not kept it in; he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead [beast] shall be his own.

  • Lev 4:29-30
    2 verses
    68%

    29And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin-offering, and kill the sin-offering in the place of burnt-offering.

    30And the priest shall take of the blood thereof with his finger, and put it upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering; and all the blood thereof shall he pour out at the base of the altar.