6And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
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I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Care had been taken by some preceding laws for the vigorous and effectual persecution of a wilful murderer (Deut. 19:11-13), the putting of whom to death was the putting away of the guilt of blood from the land; but if this could not be done, the murderer not being discovered, they must not think that the land was in no danger of contracting any pollution because it was not through any neglect of…
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