Numbers 35:33

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Mic 4:11 : 11 And now a number of nations have come together against you, and they say, Let her be made unclean and let our eyes see the fate of Zion.
  • Gen 9:6 : 6 Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.
  • Ps 106:38 : 38 And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.
  • Isa 26:21 : 21 For the Lord is coming out of his place to send punishment on the people of the earth for their evil-doing: the earth will let the blood drained out on her be seen, and will keep her dead covered no longer.
  • Ezek 22:24-27 : 24 Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no rain or thunderstorm has come in the day of wrath. 25 Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her. 26 Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them. 27 Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
  • Hos 4:2-3 : 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. 3 Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.
  • Lev 18:25 : 25 And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.
  • Deut 21:1-8 : 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: 5 Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged: 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, 7 Will say, This death is not the work of our hands and our eyes have not seen it. 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.
  • Deut 21:23 : 23 Do not let his body be on the tree all night, but put it to rest in the earth the same day; for the man who undergoes hanging is cursed by God; so do not make unclean the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage.
  • 2 Kgs 23:26 : 26 But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.
  • 2 Kgs 24:4 : 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.
  • Ps 106:28 : 28 And they were joined to Baal-peor, and took part in the offerings to the dead.
  • Matt 23:31-35 : 31 So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death. 32 Make full, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell? 34 For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town; 35 So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.
  • Luke 11:50-51 : 50 So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days; 51 From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who was put to death between the altar and the Temple. Yes, I say to you, It will come on this generation.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 35:34
    81%

    34Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.

  • Deut 19:10
    78%

    10So 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.

  • Num 35:31-32
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    77%

    31Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death.

    32And no price may be offered for one who has gone in flight to a safe town, for the purpose of letting him come back to his place before the death of the high priest.

  • Ezek 33:25-26
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    77%

    25For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?

    26You put your faith in your swords, you do disgusting things, everyone takes his neighbour's wife: are you to have the land for your heritage?

  • Num 35:27-28
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    27And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

    28Because he had been ordered to keep inside the safe town till the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the taker of life may come back to the place of his heritage.

  • Deut 15:23
    75%

    23Only do not take its blood for food, but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

  • Deut 12:16
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    16But you may not take the blood for food, it is to be drained out on the earth like water.

  • Lev 17:10-16
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    10And if any man of Israel, or any other living among them, takes any sort of blood for food, my wrath will be turned against that man and he will be cut off from among his people.

    11For the life of the flesh is in its blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to take away your sin: for it is the blood which makes free from sin because of the life in it.

    12For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as food.

    13And any man of Israel, or any other living among them, who gets with his bow any beast or bird used for food, is to see that its blood is covered with earth.

    14For the blood is the life of all flesh: and so I have said to the children of Israel, You may not take any sort of blood as food, and any man who does so will be cut of.

    15And anyone who takes as food anything which has come to a natural end, or anything which has been put to death by beasts, if he is one of you by birth, or of another nation, will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening, and then he will be clean.

    16But if his clothing is not washed and his body bathed, his sin will be on him.

  • Deut 21:7-9
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    7Will say, This death is not the work of our hands and our eyes have not seen it.

    8Have 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.

    9So 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.

  • Deut 19:13
    73%

    13Have 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.

  • Lev 17:3-4
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    73%

    3If any man of Israel puts to death an ox or a lamb or a goat, in or outside the tent-circle;

    4And 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:

  • Lev 18:27-28
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    27(For all these disgusting things were done by the men of this country who were there before you, and the land has been made unclean by them;)

    28So that the land may not put you out from it, when you make it unclean, as it put out the nations which were there before you.

  • Deut 12:23-24
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    23But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.

    24Do not take it for food but let it be drained out on the earth like water.

  • Ezek 35:6
    73%

    6For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you.

  • Lev 18:24-25
    2 verses
    73%

    24Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:

    25And the land itself has become unclean; so that I have sent on it the reward of its wrongdoing, and the land itself puts out those who are living in it.

  • Gen 9:4
    72%

    4But flesh with the life-blood in it you may not take for food.

  • Ps 106:38
    71%

    38And gave the blood of their sons and their daughters who had done no wrong, offering them to the images of Canaan; and the land was made unclean with blood.

  • Lev 7:26-27
    2 verses
    71%

    26And you are not to take for food any blood, of bird or of beast, in any of your houses.

    27Whoever takes any blood for food will be cut off from his people.

  • Hos 4:2
    71%

    2There 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.

  • Ezek 43:20
    71%

    20You are to take some of its blood and put it on the four horns and on the four angles of the shelf and on the edge all round: and you are to make it clean and free from sin.

  • Ezek 36:18
    71%

    18So I let loose my wrath on them because of those whom they had violently put to death in the land, and because they had made it unclean with their images:

  • Lev 16:19
    71%

    19Shaking drops of the blood from his finger on it seven times to make it holy and clean from whatever is unclean among the children of Israel.

  • Num 35:24-25
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    70%

    24Then 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:

    25And let the people keep the man responsible for the death safe from the hands of him who has the right of punishment for blood, and send him back to his safe town where he had gone in flight: there let him be till the death of the high priest who was marked with the holy oil.

  • Num 19:13
    70%

    13Anyone touching the body of a dead man without making himself clean in this way, makes the House of the Lord unclean; and that man will be cut off from Israel: because the water was not put on him, he will be unclean; his unclean condition is unchanged.

  • Joel 3:21
    70%

    21And the Lord will be thundering from Zion, and his voice will be sounding from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth will be shaking: but the Lord will be a breastplate for his people and a strong place for the children of Israel.

  • Heb 9:22
    70%

    22And by the law almost all things are made clean with blood, and without blood there is no forgiveness.

  • Gen 9:6
    70%

    6Whoever takes a man's life, by man will his life be taken; because God made man in his image.

  • Heb 9:13
    70%

    13For if the blood of goats and oxen, and the dust from the burning of a young cow, being put on the unclean, make the flesh clean:

  • Num 19:4
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    4Then let Eleazar the priest take some of her blood on his finger, shaking the blood seven times in the direction of the front of the Tent of meeting: