Numbers 35:33

Webster's Bible (1833)

So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.

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  • Mic 4:11 : 11 Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, 'Let her be defiled, And let our eye gloat over Zion.'
  • Gen 9:6 : 6 Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.
  • Ps 106:38 : 38 They shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.
  • Isa 26:21 : 21 For, behold, Yahweh comes forth out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.
  • Ezek 22:24-27 : 24 Son of man, tell her, You are a land that is not cleansed, nor rained on in the day of indignation. 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst of it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst of it. 26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them. 27 Her princes in the midst of it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, [and] to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
  • Hos 4:2-3 : 2 There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; They break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed. 3 Therefore the land will mourn, And everyone who dwells therein will waste away. All living things in her, Even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; Yes, the fish of the sea also die.
  • Lev 18:25 : 25 The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomitted out her inhabitants.
  • Deut 21:1-8 : 1 If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him; 2 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are round about him who is slain: 3 and it shall be, that the city which is nearest to the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn't been worked with, and which has not drawn in the yoke; 4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley. 5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be. 6 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley; 7 and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. 8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood [to remain] in the midst of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven them.
  • Deut 21:23 : 23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
  • 2 Kgs 23:26 : 26 Notwithstanding, Yahweh didn't turn from the fierceness of his great wrath, with which his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocation with which Manasseh had provoked him.
  • 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood: and Yahweh would not pardon.
  • Ps 106:28 : 28 They joined themselves also to Baal Peor, And ate the sacrifices of the dead.
  • Matt 23:31-35 : 31 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna? 34 Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city; 35 that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.
  • Luke 11:50-51 : 50 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation; 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.' Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

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  • Num 35:34
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    34You shall not defile the land which you inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Yahweh, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.

  • Deut 19:10
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    10that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

  • Num 35:31-32
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    31Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

    32You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

  • Ezek 33:25-26
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    25Therefore tell them, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: You eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood: and shall you possess the land?

    26You stand on your sword, you work abomination, and you defile everyone his neighbor's wife: and shall you possess the land?

  • Num 35:27-28
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    27and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

    28because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the manslayer shall return into the land of his possession.

  • Deut 15:23
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    23Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground as water.

  • Deut 12:16
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    16Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

  • Lev 17:10-16
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    10"'Any man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who eats any kind of blood, I will set my face against that soul who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

    11For the life of the flesh is in the blood; and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.

    12Therefore I have said to the children of Israel, "No person among you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger who lives as a foreigner among you eat blood."

    13"'Whatever man there is of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners among them, who takes in hunting any animal or bird that may be eaten; he shall pour out its blood, and cover it with dust.

    14For as to the life of all flesh, its blood is with its life: therefore I said to the children of Israel, "You shall not eat the blood of any kind of flesh; for the life of all flesh is its blood. Whoever eats it shall be cut off."

    15"'Every person that eats what dies of itself, or that which is torn by animals, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening: then he shall be clean.

    16But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.'"

  • Deut 21:7-9
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    7and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

    8Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood [to remain] in the midst of your people Israel. The blood shall be forgiven them.

    9So shall you put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

  • Deut 19:13
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    13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

  • Lev 17:3-4
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    3Whatever man there is of the house of Israel, who kills an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or who kills it outside the camp,

    4and hasn't brought it to the door of the Tent of Meeting, to offer it as an offering to Yahweh before the tabernacle of Yahweh: blood shall be imputed to that man. He has shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people.

  • Lev 18:27-28
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    27(for all these abominations have the men of the land done, that were before you, and the land became defiled);

    28that the land not vomit you out also, when you defile it, as it vomited out the nation that was before you.

  • Deut 12:23-24
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    23Only be sure that you don't eat the blood: for the blood is the life; and you shall not eat the life with the flesh.

    24You shall not eat it; you shall pour it out on the earth as water.

  • Ezek 35:6
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    6therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will prepare you to blood, and blood shall pursue you: since you have not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue you.

  • Lev 18:24-25
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    24"'Don't defile yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations which I am casting out before you were defiled.

    25The land was defiled: therefore I punished its iniquity, and the land vomitted out her inhabitants.

  • Gen 9:4
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    4But flesh with the life of it, the blood of it, you shall not eat.

  • Ps 106:38
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    38They shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted with blood.

  • Lev 7:26-27
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    26You shall not eat any blood, whether it is of bird or of animal, in any of your dwellings.

    27Whoever it is who eats any blood, that soul shall be cut off from his people.'"

  • Hos 4:2
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    2There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; They break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

  • Ezek 43:20
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    20You shall take of the blood of it, and put it on the four horns of it, and on the four corners of the ledge, and on the border round about: thus shall you cleanse it and make atonement for it.

  • Ezek 36:18
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    18Therefore I poured out my wrath on them for the blood which they had poured out on the land, and because they had defiled it with their idols;

  • Lev 6:27
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    27Whatever shall touch its flesh shall be holy. When there is any of its blood sprinkled on a garment, you shall wash that on which it was sprinkled in a holy place.

  • Lev 16:19
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    19He shall sprinkle some of the blood on it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and make it holy from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

  • Num 35:24-25
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    24then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

    25and the congregation shall deliver the manslayer out of the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge, where he was fled: and he shall dwell therein until the death of the high priest, who was anointed with the holy oil.

  • Num 19:13
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    13Whoever touches a dead person, the body of a man who has died, and doesn't purifies himself, defiles the tent of Yahweh; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water for impurity was not sprinkled on him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet on him.

  • Joel 3:21
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    21I will cleanse their blood, That I have not cleansed: For Yahweh dwells in Zion."

  • Heb 9:22
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    22According to the law, nearly everything is cleansed with blood, and apart from shedding of blood there is no remission.

  • Gen 9:6
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    6Whoever sheds man's blood, by man will his blood be shed, for in the image of God made he man.

  • Heb 9:13
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    13For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling those who have been defiled, sanctify to the cleanness of the flesh:

  • Num 19:4
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    4and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.