Deuteronomy 21:6
and all the elders of that city nearest the corpse must wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.
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- Ps 26:6 : 6 I maintain a pure lifestyle, so I can appear before your altar, O LORD,
- Ps 73:13 : 13 I concluded,“Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.
- Jer 2:22 : 22 You can try to wash away your guilt with a strong detergent. You can use as much soap as you want. But the stain of your guilt is still there for me to see,” says the Sovereign LORD.
- Matt 27:24-25 : 24 Jesus is Condemned and Mocked When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said,“I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!” 25 In reply all the people said,“Let his blood be on us and on our children!”
- Heb 9:10 : 10 They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.
- Ps 51:2 : 2 Wash away my wrongdoing! Cleanse me of my sin!
- Ps 51:7 : 7 Cleanse me with hyssop and I will be pure; wash me and I will be whiter than snow.
- Ps 51:14 : 14 Rescue me from the guilt of murder, O God, the God who delivers me! Then my tongue will shout for joy because of your righteousness.
- Job 9:30 : 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,
- Ps 19:12 : 12 Who can know all his errors? Please do not punish me for sins I am unaware of.
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- Deut 21:1-55 verses88%
1Laws Concerning Unsolved Murder If a homicide victim should be found lying in a field in the land the LORD your God is giving you, and no one knows who killed him,
2your elders and judges must go out and measure how far it is to the cities in the vicinity of the corpse.
3Then the elders of the city nearest to the corpse must take from the herd a heifer that has not been worked– that has never pulled with the yoke–
4and bring the heifer down to a wadi with flowing water, to a valley that is neither plowed nor sown. There at the wadi they are to break the heifer’s neck.
5Then the Levitical priests will approach(for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve him and to pronounce blessings in his name, and to decide every judicial verdict)
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7Then they must proclaim,“Our hands have not spilled this blood, nor have we witnessed the crime.
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15the elders of the congregation must lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD, and someone must slaughter the bull before the LORD.
- Num 19:2-65 verses75%
2“This is the ordinance of the law which the LORD has commanded:‘Instruct the Israelites to bring you a red heifer without blemish, which has no defect and has never carried a yoke.
3You must give it to Eleazar the priest so that he can take it outside the camp, and it must be slaughtered before him.
4Eleazar the priest is to take some of its blood with his finger, and sprinkle some of the blood seven times directly in front of the tent of meeting.
5Then the heifer must be burned in his sight– its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned.
6And the priest must take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them into the midst of the fire where the heifer is burning.
- Deut 19:12-132 verses74%
12The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.
13You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.
- Num 19:16-172 verses72%
16And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.
17“‘For a ceremonially unclean person you must take some of the ashes of the heifer burnt for purification from sin and pour fresh running water over them in a vessel.
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7The witnesses must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
- Num 19:8-114 verses72%
8The one who burns it must wash his clothes in water and bathe himself in water. He will be ceremonially unclean until evening.
9“‘Then a man who is ceremonially clean must gather up the ashes of the red heifer and put them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept for the community of the Israelites for use in the water of purification– it is a purification for sin.
10The one who gathers the ashes of the heifer must wash his clothes and be ceremonially unclean until evening. This will be a permanent ordinance both for the Israelites and the resident foreigner who lives among them.
11Purification from Uncleanness“‘Whoever touches the corpse of any person will be ceremonially unclean seven days.
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4He must bring the bull to the entrance of the Meeting Tent before the LORD, lay his hand on the head of the bull, and slaughter the bull before the LORD.
- Lev 17:3-42 verses71%
3“Blood guilt will be accounted to any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp,
4but has not brought it to the entrance of the Meeting Tent to present it as an offering to the LORD before the tabernacle of the LORD. He has shed blood, so that man will be cut off from the midst of his people.
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13lay his hand on its head, and slaughter it before the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron must splash its blood against the altar’s sides.
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2He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, must splash the blood against the altar’s sides.
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24then the community must judge between the slayer and the avenger of blood according to these decisions.
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12When the Levites lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, offer the one for a purification offering and the other for a whole burnt offering to the LORD, to make atonement for the Levites.
- Lev 1:4-52 verses70%
4He must lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.
5Then the one presenting the offering must slaughter the bull before the LORD, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, must present the blood and splash the blood against the sides of the altar which is at the entrance of the Meeting Tent.
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15The priest must present it at the altar, pinch off its head and offer the head up in smoke on the altar, and its blood must be drained out against the side of the altar.
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19I will punish the leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests, and all the other people of the land who passed between the pieces of the calf.
- 2 Chr 29:22-232 verses69%
22They slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splashed it on the altar. Then they slaughtered the rams and splashed the blood on the altar; next they slaughtered the lambs and splashed the blood on the altar.
23Finally they brought the goats for the sin offering before the king and the assembly, and they placed their hands on them.
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27Anyone who touches its meat must be holy, and whoever spatters some of its blood on a garment, you must wash whatever he spatters it on in a holy place.
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19Purification After Battle“Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.
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11and must slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the LORD, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, will splash its blood against the altar’s sides.
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33“You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.
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9Contingencies for Defilement“‘If anyone dies very suddenly beside him and he defiles his consecrated head, then he must shave his head on the day of his purification– on the seventh day he must shave it.
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10“You are to present the bull at the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to put their hands on the head of the bull.
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10You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.
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8He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it before the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron must splash its blood against the altar’s sides.
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12and take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger; all the rest of the blood you are to pour out at the base of the altar.
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9In this manner you will purge out the guilt of innocent blood from among you, for you must do what is right before the LORD.
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21One who beats an animal to death must make restitution for it, but one who beats a person to death must be put to death.
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11They slaughtered the Passover lambs and the priests splashed the blood, while the Levites skinned the animals.
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11If what is vowed is an unclean animal from which an offering must not be presented to the LORD, then he must stand the animal before the priest,
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36Or if it is known that the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner did not take the necessary precautions, he must surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal will become his.
- Lev 4:29-302 verses68%
29He must lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter the sin offering in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.
30Then the priest must take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and he must pour out all the rest of its blood at the base of the altar.