Deuteronomy 21:7

Easy To Read Version

These leaders must say, ‘We did not kill this man. And we did not see it happen.

Cross References

2 Samuel 16:8

The Lord is punishing you. Why? Because you killed people in Saul’s family. You stole Saul’s place as king. But now the same bad things are happening to you. The Lord has given the kingdom to your son Absalom. Why? Because you are a murderer.” [95]

Numbers 35:33

“Don’t let your land be ruined with innocent blood. If a person murders someone, then the only payment for that crime is that the murderer must be killed! There is no other payment that will free the land from that crime.

Deuteronomy 21:6

All the leaders of the town nearest the murdered man must wash their hands over the cow that had its neck broken in the valley.

Deuteronomy 21:8

Lord, you saved Israel. We are your people. Now make us pure. [128] Don’t blame us for killing an innocent man.’ In this way, those men will not be blamed for killing an innocent man.