Numbers 35:33

New English Translation

“You must not pollute the land where you live, for blood defiles the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed there, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

Cross References

Genesis 4:10

But the Lord said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!

Genesis 9:6

“Whoever sheds human blood, by other humans must his blood be shed; for in God’s image God has made humankind.”

2 Samuel 21:9

He turned them over to the Gibeonites, and they executed them on a hill before the Lord. The seven of them died together; they were put to death during harvest time – during the first days of the beginning of the barley harvest.

2 Samuel 3:29

May his blood whirl over the head of Joab and the entire house of his father! May the males of Joab’s house never cease to have someone with a running sore or a skin disease or one who works at the spindle or one who falls by the sword or one who lacks food!”

1 Kings 2:31

The king told him, “Do as he said! Strike him down and bury him. Take away from me and from my father’s family the guilt of Joab’s murderous, bloody deeds.

2 Kings 23:26

Yet the Lord’s great anger against Judah did not subside; he was still infuriated by all the things Manasseh had done.

2 Kings 24:4

Because he killed innocent people and stained Jerusalem with their blood, the Lord was unwilling to forgive them.

2 Chronicles 23:15

They seized her and took her into the precincts of the royal palace through the horses’ entrance. There they executed her.

Psalm 106:28

They worshiped Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.

Psalm 106:38

They shed innocent blood – the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is defiled by its inhabitants, for they have violated laws, disregarded the regulation, and broken the permanent treaty.

Isaiah 26:21

For look, the Lord is coming out of the place where he lives, to punish the sin of those who live on the earth. The earth will display the blood shed on it; it will no longer cover up its slain.

Jeremiah 16:18

Before I restore them I will punish them in full for their sins and the wrongs they have done. For they have polluted my land with the lifeless statues of their disgusting idols. They have filled the land I have claimed as my own with their detestable idols.”

Jeremiah 26:15

But you should take careful note of this: If you put me to death, you will bring on yourselves and this city and those who live in it the guilt of murdering an innocent man. For the Lord has sent me to speak all this where you can hear it. That is the truth!”

Leviticus 18:25

Therefore the land has become unclean and I have brought the punishment for its iniquity upon it, so that the land has vomited out its inhabitants.

Micah 4:11

Many nations have now assembled against you. They say, “Jerusalem must be desecrated, so we can gloat over Zion!”

Numbers 35:32

And you must not accept a ransom for anyone who has fled to a town of refuge, to allow him to return home and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.

Deuteronomy 19:10

You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.

Deuteronomy 19:13

You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

Deuteronomy 21:23

his body must not remain all night on the tree; instead you must make certain you bury him that same day, for the one who is left exposed on a tree is cursed by God. You must not defile your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

Judges 9:24

He did this so the violent deaths of Jerub-Baal’s seventy sons might be avenged and Abimelech, their half-brother who murdered them, might have to pay for their spilled blood, along with the leaders of Shechem who helped him murder them.