Matthew 27:6 - The Scriptures 1998

⁶ And the chief priests took the silver pieces and said, “It is not right to put them into the treasury, seeing they are the price of blood.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But the chief priests, picking up the pieces of silver, said, It is not legal to put these in the [consecrated] treasury, for it is the price of blood.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And the chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.

Common English Bible

⁶ The chief priests picked up the silver pieces and said, “According to the Law it’s not right to put this money in the treasury. Since it was used to pay for someone’s life, it’s unclean.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ But the leaders of the priests, having taken up the pieces of silver, said, "It is not lawful to put them into the temple offerings, because it is the price of blood."

Matthew 27:6 Cross References

Isaiah 61:8

“For I, יהוה, love right-ruling; I hate robbery for burnt offering. And I shall give their reward in truth, and make an everlasting covenant with them.

Matthew 23:24

“Blind guides – straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!

Matthew 27:5

And throwing down the pieces of silver in the Dwelling Place he left, and went and hanged himself.

Matthew 27:7

So they took counsel and bought with them the potter’s field, for the burial of strangers.

Mark 7:11

“But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me, is Qorban (that is, a gift),” ’

John 18:28

Then they led יהושע  from Qayapha to the palace, and it was early. And they themselves did not go into the palace, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.

Deuteronomy 23:18

“Do not bring the gift of a whore or the pay of a dog to the House of יהוה  your Elohim for any vowed offering, for both of these are an abomination to יהוה  your Elohim.