Deuteronomy 21:6
Hebrew Text— Deuteronomy 21:6All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.
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“Come now, and let’s reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Why have you despised Yahweh’s word, to do that which is evil in his sight? You have struck Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and have taken his wife to be your wife, and have slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
“In that day there will be a spring opened to David’s house and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for sin and for uncleanness.
For when every commandment had been spoken by Moses to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of the calves and the goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
For he has said, ‘It profits a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.’
My tongue shall talk about your righteousness and about your praise all day long.
You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.
and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us, and washed us from our sins by his blood—
Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them,
for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you. You shall be clean from all your sins before Yahweh.
What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?’
They will utter the memory of your great goodness, and will sing of your righteousness.
Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then may you also do good, who are accustomed to do evil.
I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against me. I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned against me and by which they have transgressed against me.
Her nobles were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was like sapphire.
I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, and from all your idols.
So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”
They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)
Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews’ way of purifying, containing two or three metretes apiece.
Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’
Some of you were such, but you were washed. But you were sanctified. But you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and in the Spirit of our God.
Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
who has been made, not after the law of a fleshly commandment, but after the power of an endless life;
You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘These are the living things which you may eat among all the animals that are on the earth.
You shall not eat their meat. You shall not touch their carcasses. They are unclean to you.
then the priest shall command them to take for him who is to be cleansed two living clean birds, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop.
The priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the middle of the burning of the heifer.
“Isn’t this laid up in store with me, sealed up among my treasures?
“Teach me, and I will hold my peace. Cause me to understand my error.
My disobedience is sealed up in a bag. You fasten up my iniquity.
Teach me that which I don’t see. If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more’?
that you ask, ‘What advantage will it be to you? What profit will I have, more than if I had sinned?’
I will wash my hands in innocence, so I will go about your altar, Yahweh,
Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men;
Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.
I will come with the mighty acts of the Lord Yahweh. I will make mention of your righteousness, even of yours alone.
Surely I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocence,
Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long will your evil thoughts lodge within you?
“The sin of Judah is written with a pen of iron, and with the point of a diamond. It is engraved on the tablet of their heart, and on the horns of your altars.
The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
So you shall do on the seventh day of the month for everyone who errs, and for him who is simple. So you shall make atonement for the house.
Therefore Yahweh has watched over the evil, and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is righteous in all his works which he does, and we have not obeyed his voice.
The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.
Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”
For I don’t know what I am doing. For I don’t practice what I desire to do; but what I hate, that I do.
For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord.
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
Didn’t he tell me, ‘She is my sister’? She, even she herself, said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”
Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don’t allow innocent blood among your people Israel.” The blood shall be forgiven them.
You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.
Afterward, when David heard it, he said, “I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner.
“After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,
If he is pleased to contend with him, he can’t answer him one time in a thousand.
If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,
Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.
He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
Hurry to help me, Lord, my salvation.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.
Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”
For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
Lord, according to all your righteousness, let your anger and please let your wrath be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all who are around us.
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.
When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”
Therefore I testify to you today that I am clean from the blood of all men,
For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
I desire therefore that the men in every place pray, lifting up holy hands without anger and doubting.
not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.