So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are,.... The land of Canaan, as it had been by the old inhabitants of it, by idolatry, adultery, and murder:for blood it defileth the land: the shedding of innocent blood defiles a nation, and the inhabitants of it, brings guilt thereon, and subjects to punishment:and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it; or "there can be no expiation" , or "atonement made" for it in any other way; the blood of the murderer is required at his hands, and nothing short of it will satisfy law and justice, see Ge 9:6.
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Numbers 35:33
Numbers 35:33
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annexed to what goes before, because they were all Levites' cities. In
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