Deuteronomy 21:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Num 5:19-28 : 19 And the priest shall make her swear an oath, and say to the woman, If no man has lain with you, and if you have not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of your husband, be free from this bitter water that brings a curse: 20 But if you have gone aside to another instead of your husband, and if you are defiled, and some man has lain with you besides your husband: 21 Then the priest shall make the woman swear with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say to the woman, The LORD make you a curse and an oath among your people, when the LORD makes your thigh waste away and your belly swell; 22 And this water that brings a curse shall go into your bowels, to make your belly swell and your thigh waste away. And the woman shall say, Amen, amen. 23 And the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall blot them out with the bitter water: 24 And he shall make the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse; and the water that brings a curse shall enter into her and become bitter. 25 Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and wave the offering before the LORD, and offer it on the altar: 26 And the priest shall take a handful of the offering, as its memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water. 27 And when he has made her drink the water, then it shall come to pass, if she is defiled and has broken faith with her husband, that the water that brings a curse shall enter into her and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall waste away, and the woman shall become a curse among her people. 28 And if the woman is not defiled, but is clean, then she shall be free and shall conceive children.
  • 2 Sam 16:8 : 8 The LORD has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son: and, behold, you are caught in your own mischief, because you are a bloody man.
  • Job 21:21-23 : 21 For what pleasure does he have in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off? 22 Can anyone teach God knowledge, seeing He judges those who are high? 23 One dies in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.
  • Job 21:31-34 : 31 Who will declare his way to his face? And who will repay him for what he has done? 32 Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him; everyone shall follow him, as countless before him. 34 How then can you comfort me with empty words, seeing in your answers there lies falsehood?
  • Ps 7:3-4 : 3 O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands; 4 If I have rewarded evil to him who was at peace with me; (yes, I have delivered him who without cause is my enemy:)

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 21:6
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    6And all the elders of that city, that are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley,

  • Deut 21:8-9
    2 verses
    79%

    8Be merciful, O LORD, to Your people Israel, whom You have redeemed, and do not place innocent blood upon Your people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

    9So shall you put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD.

  • Matt 27:4
    74%

    4Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? See to that yourself.

  • Matt 27:24-25
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    72%

    24When Pilate saw that he could nothing prevail, but 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 to it yourselves.

    25Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us and on our children.

  • Deut 21:1-4
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    72%

    1If someone is found slain in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, lying in the field, and it is not known who has slain him,

    2Then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him that is slain;

    3And it shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer, which has not been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke;

    4And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a rough valley, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley;

  • Deut 19:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12Then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

    13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

  • Deut 19:10
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    10That innocent blood may not be shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you as an inheritance, and thus blood guilt be upon you.

  • Ps 79:3
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    3Their blood they have shed like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.

  • Lam 4:13-14
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    13For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in her midst,

    14They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have defiled themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

  • Num 35:33
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    33So you shall not pollute the land where you are: for blood defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

  • Josh 2:19-20
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    70%

    19And it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.

    20And if you reveal this our business, then we will be released from your oath which you have made us swear.

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

  • 1 Sam 12:4
    69%

    4And they said, You have not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither have you taken anything from any man's hand.

  • Lam 5:7
    69%

    7Our fathers sinned and are no more, and we have borne their iniquities.

  • Gen 42:21-22
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    69%

    21And they said one to another, We are truly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he begged us, and we would not listen; therefore this distress has come upon us.

    22And Reuben answered them, saying, Did I not speak to you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and you would not listen? therefore, behold, his blood is now required.

  • Josh 20:5
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    5And if the avenger of blood pursues him, they shall not deliver the slayer into his hand because he struck his neighbor unintentionally and did not hate him beforehand.

  • Jer 19:4
    69%

    4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it to other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

  • Jer 22:17
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    17But your eyes and your heart are set only on your covetousness, and on shedding innocent blood, and on oppression, and on violence, to do it.

  • Lev 17:4
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    4And does not bring it to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, to offer an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD; blood shall be imputed to that man; he has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

  • Ps 79:10
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    10Why should the heathen say, Where is their God? Let Him be known among the heathen in our sight by avenging the blood of Your servants which is shed.

  • 2 Kgs 24:4
    67%

    4And also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not pardon.

  • Ezek 24:7
    67%

    7For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it on the top of a rock; she did not pour it on the ground, to cover it with dust;

  • Ps 7:3
    67%

    3O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands;

  • Ezek 22:13
    67%

    13Behold, therefore I have struck My hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at the blood which has been in your midst.

  • Isa 59:3
    67%

    3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.

  • Deut 17:7
    67%

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

  • Isa 1:15
    67%

    15And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

  • Hos 4:2
    67%

    2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • Num 35:27
    67%

    27And the avenger of blood finds him outside the borders of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

  • Gen 4:10
    66%

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

  • Rev 6:10
    66%

    10And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?

  • Deut 19:21
    66%

    21Your eye shall not pity; but life shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Prov 6:17
    66%

    17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

  • Exod 5:21
    66%

    21And they said to them, The Lord look upon you and judge; because you have made our odor to be loathed in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to kill us.

  • Josh 2:17
    66%

    17And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this your oath which you have made us swear.

  • Jer 26:15
    66%

    15But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants; for truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.

  • Ps 94:21
    66%

    21They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.

  • Num 35:24
    66%

    24Then the congregation shall judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these judgments:

  • Job 16:17-18
    2 verses
    66%

    17Not for any injustice in my hands; also, my prayer is pure.

    18O earth, do not cover my blood, and let my cry find no resting place.

  • Deut 27:25
    66%

    25Cursed be he who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.