Deuteronomy 21:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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;

Common English Bible

All the elders of the city closest to the corpse will wash their hands over the cow whose neck was broken in the river valley.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And those greater by birth of that city, nearest to the one who was slain, shall go and shall wash their hands over the calf that was killed in the valley.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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,

Deuteronomy 21:6 Cross References

2 Samuel 3:29

May the bloodguilt fall on the head of Joab and on all his father’s house, and may the house of Joab never be without one who has a discharge, or who has a defiling skin disease, or who holds a spindle, or who falls by the sword, or who lacks food!”

Job 9:30

If I wash myself with soap and cleanse my hands with lye,

Psalm 19:12

But who can detect one’s own errors? Clear me from hidden faults.

Psalm 26:6

I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O Lord,

Psalm 51:14

Deliver me from bloodshed, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your deliverance.

Psalm 51:2

Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 51:7

Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Psalm 73:13

All in vain I have kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

Jeremiah 2:22

Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, says the Lord God.

Deuteronomy 21:7

and they shall declare, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor were we witnesses to it.

Hebrews 9:10

but deal only with food and drink and various baptisms, regulations for the body imposed until the time comes to set things right.