Treasury of Scripture Knowledge Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another. it defileth Leviticus 18:25 And with which the land is defiled: the abominations of which I will visit, that it may vomit out its inhabitants. Deuteronomy 21:1-8,23 When there shall be found in the land, which the Lord thy God will give thee, the corpse of a man slain, and it is not known who is guilty of the murder, . . . 2 Kings 23:26 But yet the Lord turned not away from the wrath of his great indignation, wherewith his anger was kindled against Juda: because of the provocations, wherewith Manasses had provoked him. 2 Kings 24:4 And for the innocent blood that he shed, filling Jerusalem with innocent blood: and therefore the Lord would not be appeased. Psalm 106:28 They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead. Isaiah 26:21 For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more. Ezekiel 22:24-27 Son of man, say to her: Thou art a land that is unclean, and not rained upon in the day of wrath. . . . Hosea 4:2,3 Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood. . . . Micah 4:11 Be in pain and labour, O daughter of Sion, as a woman that bringeth forth: for now shalt thou go out of the city, and shalt dwell in the country, and shalt come even to Babylon, there thou shalt be delivered: there the Lord will redeem thee out of the hand of thy enemies. Matthew 23:31-35 Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets. . . . Luke 11:50,51 That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation, . . . the land cannot be cleansed. Context Six Cities of Refuge…32The banished and fugitives before the death of the high priest may by no means return into their own cities. 33Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.34And thus shall your possession be cleansed, myself abiding with you. For I am the Lord that dwell among the children of Israel.… Cross References Genesis 4:10 And he said to him: What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the earth. Genesis 9:6 Whosoever shall shed man's blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God. Numbers 35:32 The banished and fugitives before the death of the high priest may by no means return into their own cities. Deuteronomy 19:10 That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of the land which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty of blood. Deuteronomy 21:7 And shall say: Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it. Deuteronomy 21:8 Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O Lord, and lay not innocent blood to their charge, in the midst of thy people Israel. And the guilt of blood shall be taken from them: Judges 9:24 And to lay the crime of the murder of the seventy sons of Jerobaal, and the shedding of their blood, upon Abimelech, their brother, and upon the rest of the princes of the Sichemites, who aided him. 1 Kings 2:31 And the king said to him: Do as he hath said; and kill him, and bury him, and thou shalt remove the innocent blood which hath been shed by Joab, from me, and from the house of my father: Psalm 106:38 And they shed innocent blood: the blood of their sons and of their daughters which they sacrificed to the idols of Chanaan. And the land was polluted with blood, Isaiah 24:5 And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant. Jeremiah 16:18 And I will repay first their double iniquities, and their sins: because they have defiled my land with the carcasses of their idols, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations. Jeremiah 26:15 But know ye, and understand, that if you put me to death, you will shed innocent blood against your own selves, and against this city, and the inhabitants thereof. For in truth the Lord sent me to you, to speak all these words in your hearing. Lexicon Do notוְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no pollute תַחֲנִ֣יפוּ (ṯa·ḥă·nî·p̄ū) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 2610: To be polluted or profane the land הָאָ֗רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land where אֲשֶׁ֤ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that you אַתֶּם֙ (’at·tem) Pronoun - second person masculine plural Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you live, בָּ֔הּ (bāh) Preposition | third person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew for כִּ֣י (kî) Conjunction Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction bloodshed הַדָּ֔ם (had·dām) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed pollutes יַחֲנִ֖יף (ya·ḥă·nîp̄) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 2610: To be polluted or profane the land, הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land and no לֹֽא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no atonement can be made יְכֻפַּ֗ר (yə·ḵup·par) Verb - Pual - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3722: To cover, to expiate, condone, to placate, cancel for the land וְלָאָ֣רֶץ (wə·lā·’ā·reṣ) Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land on which the blood לַדָּם֙ (lad·dām) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed is shed, שֻׁפַּךְ־ (šup·paḵ-) Verb - QalPass - Perfect - third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 8210: To spill forth, to expend, to sprawl out except כִּי־ (kî-) Conjunction Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction by the blood בְּדַ֥ם (bə·ḏam) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed of the one who shed it. שֹׁפְכֽוֹ׃ (šō·p̄ə·ḵōw) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 8210: To spill forth, to expend, to sprawl out Additional Translations Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.So you shall not pollute the land wherein you are: for blood it defiles the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood, it polluteth the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. So shall ye not pollute with murder the land in which ye dwell; for this blood pollutes the land, and the land shall not be purged from the blood shed upon it, but by the blood of him that shed it. And ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and there can be no atonement made for the land, for the blood that hath been shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood, it polluteth the land: and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. So ye shall not pollute the land in which ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him that shed it. "'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. And ye profane not the land which ye are in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it; Jump to Previous Atonement Blood Bloodshed Cause Cleansed Death Defileth Except Expiation Live Makes Making Pardoned Polluteth Profane Profaneth Shed Sheddeth Therein Unholy Way WhereinJump to Next Atonement Blood Bloodshed Cause Cleansed Death Defileth Except Expiation Live Makes Making Pardoned Polluteth Profane Profaneth Shed Sheddeth Therein Unholy Way WhereinExternal Links Numbers 35:33 NIVNumbers 35:33 NLT Numbers 35:33 ESV Numbers 35:33 NASB Numbers 35:33 ASV Numbers 35:33 Bible Apps Numbers 35:33 Biblia Paralela Numbers 35:33 Chinese Bible Numbers 35:33 French Bible Numbers 35:33 German Bible Alphabetical: and are atonement be been blood Bloodshed by can cannot Do except expiation for has him in is it land made no not of on one pollute pollutes shall shed So that the where which who you OT Law: Numbers 35:33 So you shall not pollute the land (Nu Num.) 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