This will ensure that the land where you live will not be polluted, for murder pollutes the land. And no sacrifice except the execution of the murderer can purify the land from murder.

Commentaries

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John Calvin

John Calvin

JohnCalvin

16th Century
Protestant
16th Century

So ye shall not pollute the land. In this concluding sentence, He again reminds them that unless they exercise severe justice against murd…

John Gill

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century
Reformed Baptist
17th Century

So you shall not pollute the land where you are
The land of Canaan, as it had been by the old inhabitants of it, by …

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century

To show plainly the abhorrence of murder, and to provide more effectively for the punishment of the murderer, the nearest relation of the deceased,…