Deuteronomy 21:6

King James Version 1611 (Original)

And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 26:6 : 6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
  • Ps 73:13 : 13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
  • Jer 2:22 : 22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
  • Matt 27:24-25 : 24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. 25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
  • Ps 51:2 : 2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
  • Ps 51:7 : 7 Purge 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 understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 21:1-5
    5 verses
    88%

    1If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain 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 next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, 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 rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:

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

  • 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 the LORD: and the bullock shall be killed before the LORD.

  • Num 19:2-6
    5 verses
    75%

    2This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD 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, that he may 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 of her blood directly before the tabernacle of the congregation 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 guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

  • Num 19:16-17
    2 verses
    72%

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

    17And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

  • Deut 17:7
    72%

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

  • 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 of separation: it is a purification for sin.

    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 tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD; and shall lay his hand upon the bullock's head, and kill the bullock before the LORD.

  • 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 out of the camp,

    4And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; 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 tabernacle of the congregation: 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 offering, and kill it at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons the priests shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar round about.

  • Num 35:24
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    24Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the revenger of blood according to these judgments:

  • Num 8:12
    70%

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

  • Lev 1:4-5
    2 verses
    70%

    4And he shall put 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 the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

  • Lev 1:15
    70%

    15And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at 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, which 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: likewise, when they had killed the rams, they sprinkled the blood upon the altar: they killed also the lambs, and they sprinkled the blood upon the altar.

    23And they brought forth the he goats for the sin offering before the king and the congregation; 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 the holy place.

  • Num 31:19
    69%

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

  • Lev 1:11
    69%

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

  • Num 35:33
    69%

    33So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of 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 by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; 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 cause a bullock to be brought before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the bullock.

  • Deut 19:10
    69%

    10That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD 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 offering, and kill it before the tabernacle of the congregation: and Aaron's sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof round about upon the altar.

  • 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 pour all the blood beside the bottom of the altar.

  • Deut 21:9
    69%

    9So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

  • Lev 24:21
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    21And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.

  • 2 Chr 35:11
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    11And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.

  • Lev 27:11
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    11And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the LORD, then he shall present the beast before the priest:

  • Exod 21:36
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    36Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead 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 slay the sin offering in the place of the 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 shall pour out all the blood thereof at the bottom of the altar.