Numbers 35:33

New American Bible - revised edition

You will not pollute the land where you live. For bloodshed pollutes the land, and the land can have no expiation for the blood shed on it except through the blood of the one who shed it.

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

God then said: What have you done? Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground!

Genesis 9:6

Anyone who sheds the blood of a human being, by a human being shall that one’s blood be shed; For in the image of God have human beings been made.

2 Samuel 21:9

and delivered them into the power of the Gibeonites, who then executed them on the mountain before the Lord. The seven fell at the one time; they were put to death during the first days of the harvest—that is, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

2 Samuel 3:29

May the blood of Abner, son of Ner, be on the head of Joab and all his family. May Joab’s family never be without one suffering from a discharge, or one with a skin disease, or a man who holds the distaff, or one falling by the sword, or one in need of food!”

1 Kings 2:31

The king answered him: “Do as he has said. Strike him down and bury him, and remove from me and from my father’s house the blood which Joab shed without provocation.

2 Kings 23:26

Yet the Lord did not turn from his fiercely burning anger against Judah, because of all the provocations that Manasseh had given.

2 Kings 24:4

and especially because of the innocent blood he shed; he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not forgive.

2 Chronicles 23:15

So they seized her, and when she reached the Horse Gate of the royal palace, they put her to death.

Psalm 106:28

They joined in the rites of Baal of Peor, ate food sacrificed to the dead.

Psalm 106:38

Shedding innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters, Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, desecrating the land with bloodshed.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is polluted because of its inhabitants, for they have transgressed laws, violated statutes, broken the ancient covenant.

Isaiah 26:21

See, the Lord goes forth from his place, to punish the wickedness of the earth’s inhabitants; The earth will reveal the blood shed upon it, and no longer conceal the slain.

Jeremiah 16:18

I will at once repay them double for their crime and their sin because they profaned my land with the corpses of their detestable idols, and filled my heritage with their abominations.

Jeremiah 26:15

But you should certainly know that by putting me to death, you bring innocent blood on yourselves, on this city and its inhabitants. For in truth it was the Lord who sent me to you, to speak all these words for you to hear.”

Leviticus 18:25

And so the land has become defiled, and I have punished it for its wickedness, and the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

Micah 4:11

And now many nations are gathered against you! They say, “Let her be profaned, let our eyes see Zion’s downfall!”

Numbers 35:32

Nor will you accept compensation to allow one who has fled to a city of asylum to return to live in the land before the death of the high priest.

Deuteronomy 19:10

Thus, in the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage, innocent blood will not be shed and you will not become guilty of bloodshed.

Deuteronomy 19:13

Do not show pity, but purge from Israel the innocent blood, so that it may go well with you. Removal of Landmarks.

Deuteronomy 21:23

his corpse shall not remain on the tree overnight. You must bury it the same day; anyone who is hanged is a curse of God. You shall not defile the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage.

Judges 9:24

This was to repay the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal and to avenge their blood upon their brother Abimelech, who killed them, and upon the lords of Shechem, who encouraged him to kill his brothers.