Deuteronomy 21:6
Good News Translation
Then all the leaders from the town nearest the place where the murdered person was found are to wash their hands over the cow

New Revised Standard Version
All the elders of that town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi,

Contemporary English Version
The town leaders will wash their hands over the body of the dead cow

New American Bible
Then all the elders of that city nearest the corpse shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the ancients of that city shall come to the person slain, and shall wash their hands over the heifer that was killed in the valley,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the ancients of that city shall come to the person slain, and shall wash their hands over the heifer that was killed in the valley,

Job 9:30 If I be washed, as it were, with snow waters, and my hands shall shine ever so clean:

Psalm 19:12 Who can understand sins? from my secret ones cleanse me, O Lord:

Psalm 26:6 I will wash my hands among the innocent; and will compass thy altar, O Lord:

Psalm 51:2,7,14 Wash me yet more from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. . . .

Psalm 73:13 And I said: Then have I in vain justified my heart, and washed my hands among the innocent.

Jeremiah 2:22 Though thou wash thyself with nitre, and multiply to thyself the herb borith, thou art stained in thy iniquity before me, saith the Lord God.

Matthew 27:24,25 And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, taking water washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man. Look you to it. . . .

Hebrews 9:10 And divers washings and justices of the flesh laid on them until the time of correction.

Context
The Atonement for an Unsolved Murder
5And the priests the sons of Levi shall come, whom the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister to him, and to bless in his name, and that by their word every matter should be decided, and whatsoever is clean or unclean should be judged. 6And the ancients of that city shall come to the person slain, and shall wash their hands over the heifer that was killed in the valley,7And shall say: Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.…
Cross References
Matthew 27:24
And Pilate seeing that he prevailed nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, taking water washed his hands before the people, saying: I am innocent of the blood of this just man. Look you to it.

Deuteronomy 21:7
And shall say: Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.

2 Samuel 3:29
And may it come upon the head of Joab, and upon all his father's house: and let there not fail from the house of Joab one that hath an issue of seed, or that is a leper, or that holdeth the distaff, or that falleth by the sword, or that wanteth bread.

Deuteronomy 21:5
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