Numbers 35:33

Modern King James Version

So you shall not defile the land in which you are. For blood defiles the land. And the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him that shed it.

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

And He said, What have you done? The voice of your brother's blood cries to Me from the ground.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood shall be shed by man; for He made man in the image of God.

2 Samuel 21:9

And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites. And they hanged them in the hill before Jehovah. And they fell, seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

2 Samuel 3:29

Let it whirl about the head of Joab, and on all his father's house. And let there not fail from the house of Joab one who has an issue, or who is a leper, or who leans on a staff, or who falls on the sword, or who lacks bread.

1 Kings 2:31

And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him, so that you may take away the innocent blood which Joab shed, from me and from the house of my father.

2 Kings 23:26

But Jehovah did not turn from the heat of His great wrath, with which His anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him.

2 Kings 24:4

and also for the innocent blood which he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which Jehovah would not pardon.

2 Chronicles 23:15

And they laid hands on her; and she came to the entrance of the Gate of the Horses, beside the king's house, and they executed her there.

Psalm 106:28

And they joined themselves to Baal-peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead,

Psalm 106:38

and shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was defiled with blood.

Isaiah 24:5

And the land is defiled under its people; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, and have broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 26:21

For behold, Jehovah comes out of His place to punish the people of the earth for their iniquity; the earth also shall reveal her blood, and shall no more cover her dead.

Jeremiah 16:18

And first I will twice repay their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land, they have filled My inheritance with the dead bodies of their abominable things.

Jeremiah 26:15

But know for certain that if you put me to death you shall surely bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its people. For truly Jehovah has sent me to you to speak all these Words in your ears.

Leviticus 18:25

And the land is defiled. Therefore I visit its wickedness on it, and the land itself vomits out those who live in it.

Micah 4:11

Now also many nations are gathered against you, who say, Let her be defiled, and let our eyes look on Zion.

Numbers 35:32

And you shall take no ransom for him who has fled to the city of his refuge, to return to live in the land until the death of the high priest.

Deuteronomy 19:10

so that innocent blood may not be shed in your land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, and blood may not be on you.

Deuteronomy 19:13

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

Deuteronomy 21:23

his body shall not remain all night on the tree. But you shall surely bury him that day (for he that is hanged is accursed of God), so that your land may not be defiled, which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance.

Judges 9:24

so that the cruelty to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, who killed them, and upon the men of Shechem who helped him in the killing of his brothers.