Numbers 35:33

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I, the LORD, live among you people of Israel, so your land must be kept pure. But when a murder takes place, blood pollutes the land, and it becomes unclean. If that happens, the murderer must be put to death, so the land will be clean again. Keep murder out of Israel!

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

Then the LORD said: Why have you done this terrible thing? You killed your own brother, and his blood flowed on to the ground. Now his blood is calling out for me to punish you.

2 Samuel 21:9

turned them over to the Gibeonites, who hanged all seven of them on the mountain near the place where the LORD was worshipped. This happened right at the beginning of the barley harvest.

2 Samuel 3:29

Joab and his family are the guilty ones. I pray that Joab's family will always be sick with sores and other skin diseases. May they all be cowards, and may they die in war or starve to death.”

1 Kings 2:31

Solomon replied: Do what Joab said. Kill him and bury him! Then my family and I won't be responsible for what he did to Abner the commander of Israel's army and to Amasa the commander of Judah's army. He killed those innocent men without my father knowing about it. Both of them were better men than Joab. Now the LORD will make him pay for those murders.

2 Kings 23:26

But the LORD was still furious with the people of Judah because Manasseh had done so many things to make him angry.

2 Kings 24:4

and caused many innocent people to die. The LORD would not forgive this.

2 Chronicles 23:15

She tried to escape, but the commanders caught and killed her near the gate where horses are led into the palace.

Psalm 106:28

Your people became followers of a god named Baal-Peor, and they ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

Psalm 106:38

and to the gods of Canaan. Then they poured out the blood of these innocent children and made the land filthy.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is polluted because its people disobeyed the laws of God, breaking their agreement that was to last for ever.

Isaiah 26:21

The LORD will come out to punish everyone on earth for their sins. And when he does, those who did violent crimes will be known and punished.

Jeremiah 16:18

I will punish you double for your sins, because you have made my own land disgusting. You have filled it with lifeless idols that remind me of dead bodies.

Jeremiah 26:15

But if you put me to death, you and everyone else in Jerusalem will be guilty of murdering an innocent man, because everything I preached came from the LORD.

Leviticus 18:25

and the land so unclean, that I punished the land because of their sins, and I made it vomit them up.

Micah 4:11

Zion, because of your sins you are surrounded by many nations who say, “We can hardly wait to see you disgraced.”

Numbers 35:32

And if you have been proved innocent of murder and are living in a Safe Town, you cannot pay to go back home; you must stay there until the high priest dies.

Deuteronomy 19:10

You will need them, so innocent people won't be killed on your land while they are trying to reach a Safe Town that is too far away. You will be guilty of murder, if innocent people lose their lives because you didn't name enough Safe Towns in the land the LORD your God will give you.

Deuteronomy 19:13

Israel, for the good of the whole country, you must kill anyone who murders an innocent person. Never show mercy to a murderer!

Deuteronomy 21:23

you must not let it hang there overnight. Bury it the same day, because the dead body of a criminal will bring God's curse on the land. The LORD your God is giving this land to you, so don't make it unclean by leaving the bodies of executed criminals on display.