Deuteronomy 21:7

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and they shall declare, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.

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  • Num 5:19-28 : 19 The priest shall put her under oath and say to her, 'If no man has lain with you and you have not gone astray, defiling yourself while under your husband’s authority, may you be free from this bitter water that brings a curse.' 20 But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and defiled yourself, and if a man other than your husband has had sexual relations with you— 21 then the priest will put the woman under the curse oath and say to her, 'May the Lord make you a curse and an example of cursing among your people by making your thigh waste away and your abdomen swell.' 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body, causing your abdomen to swell and your thigh to waste away.' And the woman shall say, 'Amen, Amen.' 23 The priest is to write these curses on a scroll and then wash them off into the bitter water. 24 He shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her, causing bitter suffering. 25 The priest shall take the jealousy offering from the woman’s hand, wave the offering before the Lord, and bring it to the altar. 26 The priest shall take a handful of the offering as its memorial portion and burn it on the altar, and afterward, he shall make the woman drink the water. 27 When he makes her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, the water that brings a curse will enter her, causing her abdomen to swell and her thigh to shrink. The woman will then become a curse among her people. 28 But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be cleared of guilt and will be able to conceive children.
  • 2 Sam 16:8 : 8 The Lord has repaid you for all the bloodshed in the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned. The Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. You are now caught in your own evil, for you are a man of bloodshed."
  • Job 21:21-23 : 21 For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months is cut off? 22 Can anyone teach knowledge to God, who judges even the exalted ones? 23 One person dies in the full vigor of his strength, completely secure and at ease,
  • Job 21:31-34 : 31 Who will confront him with his conduct? Who repays him for what he has done? 32 He is carried to the graves, and a watch is kept over his tomb. 33 The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows after him, and countless go before him. 34 So how can you comfort me with empty words, since your answers remain falsehoods?
  • Ps 7:3-4 : 3 Otherwise, they will tear me apart like a lion, ripping me to pieces with no one to rescue. 4 O Lord, my God, if I have done this, if there is injustice in my hands,

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    6 All the elders of the city nearest to the slain person shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,

  • Deut 21:8-9
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    79%

    8 LORD, make atonement for Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the guilt of innocent blood against Your people Israel.’ And the bloodshed will be atoned for.

    9 So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from among you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

  • Matt 27:4
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    4 He said, 'I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.' But they replied, 'What is that to us? You take care of it.'

  • Matt 27:24-25
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    72%

    24 When Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, saying, 'I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves.'

    25 And all the people answered, 'His blood be on us and on our children!'

  • Deut 21:1-4
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    1 If someone is found dead in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, lying in a field, and it is unknown who struck him,

    2 then your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance to the surrounding cities.

    3 The elders of the city nearest to the slain person shall take a heifer that has never been worked or yoked,

    4 and they are to bring the heifer down to a valley with flowing water, a valley that has not been plowed or sown. There they are to break the heifer’s neck.

  • Deut 19:12-13
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    12 the elders of his city shall send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to be put to death.

    13 Do not pity him, but purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

  • Deut 19:10
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    10 This is to prevent the shedding of innocent blood within the land the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.

  • Ps 79:3
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    3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury them.

  • Lam 4:13-14
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    13 It happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.

    14 They wandered blindly through the streets, defiled by blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.

  • Num 35:33
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    33 Do not pollute the land where you are, for bloodshed defiles the land; and no atonement can be made for the land that has been defiled by bloodshed except by the blood of the one who shed it.

  • Josh 2:19-20
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    19 If anyone leaves the house, their death will be on their own head, and we will not be guilty. But if harm comes to anyone in your house, we will take the blame.

    20 But if you reveal this matter of ours, we will be released from the oath you made us swear.

  • Matt 23:30
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    30 and you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'

  • 1 Sam 12:4
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    4 They replied, 'You have not defrauded us, oppressed us, or taken anything from anyone’s hand.'

  • Lam 5:7
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    7 Our ancestors sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

  • Gen 42:21-22
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    21 They said to one another, 'Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw the anguish of his soul when he begged us, but we would not listen. That is why this distress has come upon us.'

    22 Reuben replied to them, 'Didn't I tell you not to sin against the boy, but you wouldn't listen? Now his blood is being demanded from us.'

  • Josh 20:5
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    5 If the avenger of blood pursues them, the city must not hand over the one who committed the killing, because they killed their neighbor unintentionally and without prior hostility.

  • Jer 19:4
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    4 For they have abandoned Me and made this place foreign. They have burned incense here to other gods—gods that neither they, their ancestors, nor the kings of Judah have known. And they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.

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    17 But your eyes and heart are set only on your dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression and violence.

  • Lev 17:4
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    4 and does not bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting to present it as an offering to the Lord before the sanctuary of the Lord shall be considered guilty of bloodshed; they have shed blood and must be cut off from their people.

  • Ps 79:10
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    10 Why should the nations say, 'Where is their God?' Let it be known among the nations before our eyes that You avenge the spilled blood of Your servants.

  • 2 Kgs 24:4
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    4 And also because of the innocent blood that he had shed, for he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the LORD was unwilling to pardon.

  • Ezek 24:7
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    7 For the blood she has shed is inside her; she placed it on the bare rock. She did not pour it on the ground to cover it with dust.

  • Ps 7:3
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    3 Otherwise, they will tear me apart like a lion, ripping me to pieces with no one to rescue.

  • Ezek 22:13
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    13 See, I will strike my hands together in anger at the dishonest gain you have made and the bloodshed that has been done in your midst.

  • Isa 59:3
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    3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with guilt. Your lips have spoken falsehood, and your tongue mutters injustice.

  • Deut 17:7
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    7 The hands of the witnesses must be the first to put the person to death, and then the hands of all the people. You must purge the evil from among you.

  • Isa 1:15
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    15 When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you. Even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood.

  • Hos 4:2
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    2 There is swearing, lying, murder, stealing, and adultery; they break all bounds, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • Num 35:27
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    27 and the avenger of blood finds the offender outside the city and kills them, the avenger shall not be guilty of bloodshed.

  • Gen 4:10
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    10 The LORD said, 'What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground.'

  • Rev 6:10
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    10 They cried out with a loud voice, 'How long, Sovereign Lord, holy and true, until You judge the inhabitants of the earth and avenge our blood?'

  • Deut 19:21
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    21 You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Prov 6:17
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    17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

  • Exod 5:21
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    21 They said to them, "May the Lord see and judge you, because you have made us obnoxious in the eyes of Pharaoh and his officials and have put a sword in their hand to kill us."

  • Josh 2:17
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    17 The men said to her, "We will be free from this oath you made us swear

  • Jer 26:15
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    15 But you should certainly know that if you put me to death, you are bringing innocent blood upon yourselves, this city, and its inhabitants, for truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.

  • Ps 94:21
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    21 They band together against the life of the righteous and condemn innocent blood.

  • Num 35:24
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    24 then the assembly must judge between the one who caused the death and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances.

  • Job 16:17-18
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    17 Yet my hands are free of violence, and my prayer is pure.

    18 O earth, do not cover my blood; may my cry never find a resting place.

  • Deut 27:25
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    25 Cursed is anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'