Numbers 35:33

Good News Translation

If you did this, you would defile the land where you are living. Murder defiles the land, and except by the death of the murderer there is no way to perform the ritual of purification for the land where someone has been murdered.

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

Then the Lord said, “Why have you done this terrible thing? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground, like a voice calling for revenge.

Genesis 9:6

Human beings were made like God, so whoever murders one of them will be killed by someone else.

2 Samuel 21:9

David handed them over to the people of Gibeon, who hanged them on the mountain before the Lord—and all seven of them died together. It was late in the spring, at the beginning of the barley harvest, when they were put to death.

2 Samuel 3:29

May the punishment for it fall on Joab and all his family! In every generation may there be some man in his family who has gonorrhea or a dreaded skin disease or is fit only to do a woman's work or is killed in battle or doesn't have enough to eat!”

1 Kings 2:31

“Do what Joab says,” Solomon answered. “Kill him and bury him. Then neither I nor any other of David's descendants will any longer be held responsible for what Joab did when he killed innocent men.

2 Kings 23:26

But the Lord's fierce anger had been aroused against Judah by what King Manasseh had done, and even now it did not die down.

2 Kings 24:4

and especially because of all the innocent people he had killed. The Lord could not forgive Manasseh for that.

2 Chronicles 23:15

They seized her, took her to the palace, and there at the Horse Gate they killed her.

Psalm 106:28

Then at Peor, God's people joined in the worship of Baal and ate sacrifices offered to dead gods.

Psalm 106:38

They killed those innocent children, and the land was defiled by those murders.

Isaiah 24:5

The people have defiled the earth by breaking God's laws and by violating the covenant he made to last forever.

Isaiah 26:21

The Lord is coming from his heavenly dwelling place to punish the people of the earth for their sins. The murders that were secretly committed on the earth will be revealed, and the ground will no longer hide those who have been killed.

Jeremiah 16:18

I will make them pay double for their sin and wickedness, because they have defiled my land with idols that are as lifeless as corpses, and have filled it with their false gods.”

Jeremiah 26:15

But be sure of this: if you kill me, you and the people of this city will be guilty of killing an innocent man, because it is the Lord who sent me to give you this warning.”

Leviticus 18:25

Their actions made the land unclean, and so the Lord is punishing the land and making it reject the people who lived there.

Micah 4:11

Many nations have gathered to attack you. They say, “Jerusalem must be destroyed! We will see this city in ruins!”

Numbers 35:32

If they have fled to a city of refuge, do not allow them to make a payment in order to return home before the death of the High Priest.

Deuteronomy 19:10

Do this, so that innocent people will not die and so that you will not be guilty of putting them to death in the land that the Lord is giving you.

Deuteronomy 19:13

No mercy will be shown to you. Israel must rid itself of murderers, so that all will go well.

Deuteronomy 21:23

it is not to remain there overnight. It must be buried the same day, because a dead body hanging on a post brings God's curse on the land. Bury the body, so that you will not defile the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

Judges 9:24

This happened so that Abimelech and the men of Shechem, who encouraged him to murder Gideon's seventy sons, would pay for their crime.