Numbers 35:33

Overview - Numbers 35
Eight and forty cities for the Levites, with their suburbs, and measure thereof.
Six of them are to be cities of refuge.
The laws of murder and manslaughter.
31 No satisfaction for murder.
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Numbers 35:33  (King James Version)
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.
 


it defileth
Leviticus 18:25 ; Deuteronomy 21:1-8 Deuteronomy 21:23 ; 2 Kings 23:26 ; 24:4 Psalms 106:28 ; Isaiah 26:21
Ezekiel 22:24-27 ; Hosea 4:2 Hosea 4:3 ; Micah 4:11 ; Matthew 23:31-35 ; Luke 11:50 Luke 11:51

the land cannot be cleansed
Hebrew there can be no expiation
for the land.