THEOSISMichail Cheraskov
The stringent and rigorous regulations concerning murder were designed to minimize occurrences of homicide in the land of Israel and to demonstrate the severity with which God views violations against human life.
Numbers 35:33Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Defile not the land of your habitation, which is stained with the blood of the innocent: neither can it otherwise be expiated, but by his blood that hath shed the blood of another.
וְלֹֽא־תַחֲנִ֣יפוּ אֶת־הָאָ֗רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֤ר אַתֶּם֙ בָּ֔הּ כִּ֣י הַדָּ֔ם ה֥וּא יַחֲנִ֖יף אֶת־הָאָ֑רֶץ וְלָאָ֣רֶץ לֹֽא־יְכֻפַּ֗ר לַדָּם֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר שֻׁפַּךְ־בָּ֔הּ כִּי־אִ֖ם בְּדַ֥ם שֹׁפְכֽוֹ׃
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Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Luke 11:50That the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required of this generation,
- Luke 11:51From the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who was slain between the altar and the temple. Yea I say to you: It shall be required of this generation.
- Ps 106 (105):38
- Isa 26:21For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.
- Hos 4:2Cursing, and lying, and killing, and theft, and adultery, have overflowed, and blood hath touched blood.
- Hos 4:3Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth in it shall languish with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be gathered together.
- Ezek 22:24Son of man, say to her: Thou art a land that is unclean, and not rained upon in the day of wrath.
- Ezek 22:27Her princes in the midst of her, are like wolves ravening the prey to shed blood, and to destroy souls, and to run after gains through covetousness.