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

⁶ 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

⁶ 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

⁶ 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)

⁶ 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

⁶ 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

⁶ 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.

Deuteronomy 21:6 Cross References

Psalm 73:13

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

Psalm 26:6

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

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.

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.

Psalm 51:14

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

Psalm 51:7

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

Psalm 51:2

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

Psalm 19:12

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

Job 9:30

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

Deuteronomy 21:7

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

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!”