Deuteronomy 21:6
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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.

Lexicon
Then all
וְכֹ֗ל (wə·ḵōl)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

the elders
זִקְנֵי֙ (ziq·nê)
Adjective - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 2205: Old

of the city
הָעִ֣יר (hā·‘îr)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5892: Excitement

nearest
הַקְּרֹבִ֖ים (haq·qə·rō·ḇîm)
Article | Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7138: Near

the victim
הֶחָלָ֑ל (he·ḥā·lāl)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2491: Pierced, polluted

shall wash
יִרְחֲצוּ֙ (yir·ḥă·ṣū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7364: To wash, wash off or away, bathe

their hands
יְדֵיהֶ֔ם (yə·ḏê·hem)
Noun - fdc | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3027: A hand

by the stream
בַנָּֽחַל׃ (ḇan·nā·ḥal)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5158: A stream, a winter torrent, a, valley, a shaft

over
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

the heifer
הָעֶגְלָ֖ה (hā·‘eḡ·lāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5697: A, calf, one nearly grown

whose neck has been broken,
הָעֲרוּפָ֥ה (hā·‘ă·rū·p̄āh)
Article | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6202: To break the neck, to destroy


Additional Translations
Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,And all the elders of that city, that are next to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

And all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

And all the elders of that city who draw nigh to the slain man shall wash their hands over the head of the heifer which was slain in the valley;

And all the elders of that city, that are nearest unto him that is slain, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck is broken in the watercourse,

and all the elders of that city, who are nearest unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley:

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

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;

and all the elders of that city, who are near unto the slain one, do wash their hands over the heifer which is beheaded in the valley,
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