 | Joshua Dixon - 1838 - 268 pages
...cleansed of the it . Num. xxxv. 30—33. If a man smite his brother that he die, the elders of the city blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed shall deliver him to the avenger of blood that he may die. Thine eye shall not pity, but life shall... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1839 - 568 pages
...Of the latter I was convinced by the express words of God's law, ' That blood defileth the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.' Numbers xxxv. 33. And, therefore, I could not consent to the counsels of those who were contented to... | |
 | Sermons - 1839 - 216 pages
...commonwealth can be washed away, is pronounced to be the infliction of justice on the offender ; " the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it." It must be evident that what is here expressed respecting the greatest of all crimes, is applicable... | |
 | Joseph Howard Parks - 1999 - 644 pages
...surely put to death. So shall ye not pollute the land whereon ye are, for blood defileth the land, and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.'" These were stern truths, he declared, and "the curse of God will rest upon that State or nation which... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1978 - 464 pages
...crime has the effect of defiling the community. As Numbers 35-33 notes: "Blood defiles the lend, snd the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that Is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it." Deuteronomy 19:13 expresses It this way: "Thine eye shell not pity him (the preTnedit&ted murderer),... | |
 | Julia Kristeva - 1982 - 236 pages
...(Genesis 9:6); "So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it" (Numbers 35:33). Death drive, in such an adjustment, does not disappear on that account. Checked, it... | |
 | Zondervan - 1984 - 940 pages
...the priest. 33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and 6 34 Defile not therefore the land which ye shall inhabit, wherein I dwell: for 1 the LORD dwell among... | |
 | J. Sidlow Baxter, James Sidlow Baxter - 1986 - 1848 pages
...to death. . . . So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it" (Num. xxxv. 31-3). "Thine eye shall not pity him ; but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood... | |
 | Lincoln B. Faller - 1987 - 378 pages
...more than a figure of speech. Numbers 35:33 was relevant as well: "for blood it defileth the Land: and the Land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it."4 On such authority Mather believed that "one Murder unpunished may bring guilt and a Curse upon... | |
 | David Daniell - 1992 - 700 pages
...pollute not the land which ye are in, for blood defileth the land. And the land can none otherwise be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of it that shed it. Defile not therefore the land which ye inhabit, and in the midst of which I also dwell,... | |
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So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. 
