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Deuteronomy 21:5-7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

5 The priests, the descendants of Levi, shall come forward, for the Lord, your God, has chosen them to minister to him and to bless in the name of the Lord, and every case of dispute or assault shall be for them to decide. 6 Then all the elders of that city nearest the corpse shall wash their hands[a] over the heifer whose neck was broken in the wadi, 7 and shall declare, “Our hands did not shed this blood,[b] and our eyes did not see the deed.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:6 Wash their hands: a symbolic gesture in protestation of one’s own innocence when human blood is unjustly shed; cf. Mt 27:24.
  2. 21:7 This blood: the blood of the slain, or the bloodguilt effected by the killing.
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