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So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.
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Murder Defiles God's Land
Commentators explain that murder is not merely a crime against a person but a spiritual act that defiles the land. Because God chose to dwell among His people in that land, shedding innocent blood was a direct offense against His sanctity, bringing a curse upon the entire community until justice was served.
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16th Century
Protestant
So ye shall not pollute the land. In this concluding sentence, He again reminds them that unless they exercise severe justice against murd…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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 …
Presbyterian
To show plainly the abhorrence of murder, and to provide more effectively for the punishment of the murderer, the nearest relation of the deceased,…
