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Deu 21:6 — And all the elders of that city, [that are] next unto the slain [man], shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
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wash their hands   Washing the hands was anciently a symbolical action, denoting that the person was innocent of the crime in question. Job 9:30; Psa 19:12; Psa 26:6; Psa 51:2,7,14; Psa 73:13; Jer 2:22; Mat 27:24,25; Hbr 9:10
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wash their hands
Job 9:30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Psa 19:12 Who can understand [his] errors? cleanse thou me from secret [faults].
Psa 26:6 I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:
Psa 51:2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
Psa 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Psa 51:14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: [and] my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
Psa 73:13 Verily I have cleansed my heart [in] vain, and washed my hands in innocency.
Jer 2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, [yet] thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
Mat 27:24 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but [that] rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed [his] hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye [to it].
Mat 27:25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood [be] on us, and on our children.
Hbr 9:10 [Which stood] only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed [on them] until the time of reformation.

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Scott, Thomas. "Deuteronomy 21:6," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Deu/21/6.html>.

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