Deuteronomy 21:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Will say, This death is not the work of our hands and our eyes have not seen it.

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  • Num 5:19-28 : 19 And he will make her take an oath, and say to her, If no man has been your lover and you have not been with another in place of your husband, you are free from this bitter water causing the curse; 20 But if you have been with another in place of your husband and have made yourself unclean with a lover: 21 Then the priest will put the oath of the curse on the woman, and say to her, May the Lord make you a curse and an oath among your people, sending on you wasting of the legs and disease of the stomach; 22 And this water of the curse will go into your body, causing disease of your stomach and wasting of your legs: and the woman will say, So be it. 23 And the priest will put these curses in a book, washing out the writing with the bitter water; 24 And he will give to the woman the bitter water for drink; and the bitter water causing the curse will go into her. 25 And the priest will take from her hand the meal offering of doubt, waving it before the Lord, and will take it to the altar; 26 And he will take some of it in his hand, burning it on the altar as a sign, and then he will give the woman the bitter water. 27 And it will be that if the woman has become unclean, sinning against her husband, when she has taken the bitter water it will go into her body, causing disease of the stomach and wasting of the legs, and she will be a curse among her people. 28 But if she is clean she will be free and will have offspring.
  • 2 Sam 16:8 : 8 The Lord has sent punishment on you for all the blood of the family of Saul, whose kingdom you have taken; and the Lord has given the kingdom to Absalom, your son: now you yourself are taken in your evil, because you are a man of blood.
  • Job 21:21-23 : 21 For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended? 22 Is anyone able to give teaching to God? for he is the judge of those who are on high. 23 One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:
  • Job 21:31-34 : 31 Who will make his way clear to his face? and if he has done a thing, who gives him punishment for it? 32 He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it. 33 The earth of the valley covering his bones is sweet to him, and all men come after him, as there were unnumbered before him. 34 Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?
  • Ps 7:3-4 : 3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong; 4 If I have given back evil to him who did evil to me, or have taken anything from him who was against me without cause;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 21:6
    81%

    6 And all the responsible men of that town which is nearest to the dead man, washing their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the valley,

  • Deut 21:8-9
    2 verses
    79%

    8 Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.

    9 So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Matt 27:4
    74%

    4 Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.

  • Matt 27:24-25
    2 verses
    72%

    24 So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible.

    25 And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.

  • Deut 21:1-4
    4 verses
    72%

    1 If, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you, you come across the dead body of a man in the open country, and you have no idea who has put him to death:

    2 Then your responsible men and your judges are to come out, and give orders for the distance from the dead body to the towns round about it to be measured;

    3 And whichever town is nearest to the body, the responsible men of that town are to take from the herd a young cow which has never been used for work or put under the yoke;

    4 And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken:

  • Deut 19:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12 The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.

    13 Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.

  • Deut 19:10
    71%

    10 So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.

  • Ps 79:3
    71%

    3 Their blood has been flowing like water round about Jerusalem; there was no one to put them in their last resting-place.

  • Lam 4:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13 It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

    14 They are wandering like blind men in the streets, they are made unclean with blood, so that their robes may not be touched by men.

  • Num 35:33
    70%

    33 So do not make the land where you are living unholy: for blood makes the land unholy: and there is no way of making the land free from the blood which has come on it, but only by the death of him who was the cause of it.

  • Josh 2:19-20
    2 verses
    70%

    19 Then if anyone goes out of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, we will not be responsible; but if any damage comes to anyone in the house, his blood will be on our heads.

    20 But if you say anything about our business here, then we will be free from the oath you have made us take.

  • Matt 23:30
    70%

    30 If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.

  • 1 Sam 12:4
    69%

    4 And they said, You have never been untrue to us or cruel to us; you have taken nothing from any man.

  • Lam 5:7
    69%

    7 Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us.

  • Gen 42:21-22
    2 verses
    69%

    21 And they said to one another, Truly, we did wrong to our brother, for we saw his grief of mind, and we did not give ear to his prayers; that is why this trouble has come on us.

    22 And Reuben said to them, Did I not say to you, Do the child no wrong? but you gave no attention; so now, punishment has come on us for his blood.

  • Josh 20:5
    69%

    5 And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.

  • Jer 19:4
    69%

    4 Because they have given me up, and made this place a strange place, burning perfumes in it to other gods, of whom they and their fathers and the kings of Judah had no knowledge; and they have made this place full of the blood of those who have done no wrong;

  • Jer 22:17
    68%

    17 But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.

  • Lev 17:4
    67%

    4 And has not taken it to the door of the Tent of meeting, to make an offering to the Lord, before the Lord's House, its blood will be on him, for he has taken life, and he will be cut off from among his people:

  • Ps 79:10
    67%

    10 Why may the nations say, Where is their God? Let payment for the blood of your servants be made openly among the nations before our eyes.

  • 2 Kgs 24:4
    67%

    4 And because of the death of those who had done no wrong, for he made Jerusalem full of the blood of the upright; and the Lord had no forgiveness for it.

  • Ezek 24:7
    67%

    7 For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;

  • Ps 7:3
    67%

    3 O Lord my God, if I have done this; if my hands have done any wrong;

  • Ezek 22:13
    67%

    13 See, then, I have made my hands come together in wrath against your taking of goods by force and against the blood which has been flowing in you.

  • Isa 59:3
    67%

    3 For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

  • Deut 17:7
    67%

    7 The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.

  • Isa 1:15
    67%

    15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

  • Hos 4:2
    67%

    2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.

  • Num 35:27
    67%

    27 And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

  • Gen 4:10
    66%

    10 And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.

  • Rev 6:10
    66%

    10 And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?

  • Deut 19:21
    66%

    21 Have no pity; let life be given for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Prov 6:17
    66%

    17 Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;

  • Exod 5:21
    66%

    21 And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.

  • Josh 2:17
    66%

    17 And the men said to her, We will only be responsible for this oath which you have made us take,

  • Jer 26:15
    66%

    15 Only be certain that, if you put me to death, you will make yourselves and your town and its people responsible for the blood of one who has done no wrong: for truly, the Lord has sent me to you to say all these words in your ears.

  • Ps 94:21
    66%

    21 They are banded together against the soul of the upright, to give decisions against those who have done no wrong.

  • Num 35:24
    66%

    24 Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules:

  • Job 16:17-18
    2 verses
    66%

    17 Though my hands have done no violent acts, and my prayer is clean.

    18 O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!

  • Deut 27:25
    66%

    25 Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it.