Deuteronomy 21:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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:

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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

Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency;

Psalm 26:6

I will wash mine hands in innocency; So will I compass thine altar, O LORD:

Hebrews 9:10

being only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

Jeremiah 2:22

For though thou wash thee with lye, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD

Psalm 51:14

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation; And my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.

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 throughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.

Psalm 19:12

Who can discern his errors? Clear thou me from hidden faults.

Job 9:30

If I wash myself with snow water, And make my hands never so clean;

Deuteronomy 21:7

and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

2 Samuel 3:29

let it fall 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, or that is a leper, or that leaneth on a staff, or that falleth by the sword, or that lacketh bread.