Numbers 35:33

Catholic Public Domain Version

Do not pollute the land of your habitation, so as to stain it with the blood of the innocent; neither is it able to be expiated in any way other than by the blood of him who has shed the blood of another.

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

And he said to him: "What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries out to me from the land.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever will shed human blood, his blood will be poured out. For man was indeed made to the image of God.

2 Samuel 21:9

and he gave them into the hands of the Gibeonites. And they crucified them on a hill in the sight of the Lord. And these seven fell together in the first days of the harvest, when the barley is beginning to be reaped.

2 Samuel 3:29

And may it fall upon the head of Joab, and upon the entire house of his father. And may there not fail to be, in the house of Joab, one who suffers from a flow of seed, or one who is leprous, or one who is effeminate, or one who falls by the sword, or one who is in need of bread."

1 Kings 2:31

And the king said to him, "Do just as he has said. And put him to death, and bury him. And so shall you take away the innocent blood, which was shed by Joab, from me and from my father's house.

2 Kings 23:26

Yet truly, the Lord did not turn away from the wrath of his great fury, his fury which was enraged against Judah because of the provocations by which Manasseh had provoked him.

2 Kings 24:4

and because of the innocent blood which he shed, and because he filled Jerusalem with the slaughter of the innocent. And for this reason, the Lord was not willing to be appeased.

2 Chronicles 23:15

And they laid hands on her neck. And when she had entered the gate for the horses at the king's house, they put her to death there.

Psalm 106:28

And they cried out to the Lord in their tribulation, and he led them out of their distress.

Psalm 106:38

And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly. And he did not diminish their beasts of burden.

Isaiah 24:5

And the earth was corrupted by its inhabitants. For they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have dissipated the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 26:21

For behold, the Lord will go forth from his place, so that he may visit the iniquity of each inhabitant of the earth against him. And the earth will reveal its blood, and it will no longer cover its slain.

Jeremiah 16:18

But first, I will repay their double iniquities and their sins. For they have defiled my land with the dead bodies of their idols, and they have filled my inheritance with their abominations."

Jeremiah 26:15

Yet truly, know and understand this: if you kill me, you will be bringing innocent blood against yourselves, and against this city and its inhabitants. For in truth, the Lord sent me to you, so as to speak all these words in your hearing."

Leviticus 18:25

and by which the land has been polluted. I will visit the wickedness of the land, so that it may vomit out its inhabitants.

Micah 4:11

And now many peoples have been gathered together against you, and they say, "Let her be stoned and let our eyes gaze upon Zion."

Numbers 35:32

Exiles and fugitives, prior to the death of the high priest, are by no means able to be returned to their own cities.

Deuteronomy 19:10

So may innocent blood not be shed in the midst of the land which the Lord your God will give you to possess, lest you be guilty of blood.

Deuteronomy 19:13

You shall not take pity on him, and so shall you take away the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may be well with you.

Deuteronomy 21:23

his corpse shall not remain on the tree. Instead, he shall be buried on the same day. For he who hangs from a tree has been cursed by God, and you shall not defile your land, which the Lord your God will give to you as a possession."

Judges 9:24

and to place blame for the crime of the killing of the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, and for the shedding of their blood, upon Abimelech, their brother, and upon the rest of the leaders of the Shechemites, who assisted him.