Deuteronomy 21:7

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Deuteronomy 21:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 And the priests, the sons of Levi, shall come forward, for the LORD your God has chosen them to serve Him and pronounce blessings in His name and to give a ruling in every dispute and case of assault.

6 Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,

7 and they shall declare, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.

8 Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.

9 So you shall purge from among you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

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Numbers 5:19

And he is to put the woman under oath and say to her, ‘If no other man has slept with you and you have not gone astray and become defiled while under your husband’s authority, may you be immune to this bitter water that brings a curse.

Numbers 5:20

But if you have gone astray while under your husband’s authority and have defiled yourself and lain carnally with a man other than your husband’—

Numbers 5:21

and the priest shall have the woman swear under the oath of the curse—‘then may the LORD make you an attested curse among your people by making your thigh shrivel and your belly swell.

Numbers 5:22

May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’

Numbers 5:23

And the priest shall write these curses on a scroll and wash them off into the bitter water.

Numbers 5:24

He is to have the woman drink the bitter water that brings a curse, and it will enter her and cause her bitter suffering.

Numbers 5:25

The priest shall take from her hand the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.

Numbers 5:26

Then the priest is to take a handful of the grain offering as a memorial portion and burn it on the altar; after that he is to have the woman drink the water.

Numbers 5:27

When he has made her drink the water, if she has defiled herself and been unfaithful to her husband, then the water that brings a curse will enter her and cause bitter suffering; her belly will swell, her thigh will shrivel, and she will become accursed among her people.

Numbers 5:28

But if the woman has not defiled herself and is clean, she will be unaffected and able to conceive children.

2 Samuel 16:8

The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”

Job 21:21

For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months has run out?

Job 21:22

Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since He judges those on high?

Job 21:23

One man dies full of vigor, completely secure and at ease.

Job 21:31

Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?

Job 21:32

He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.

Job 21:33

The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

Job 21:34

So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

Psalms 7:3

O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,

Psalms 7:4

if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,