33 So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood (A)defiles the land, and no [a]atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except (B)by the blood of him who shed it.

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  1. Numbers 35:33 Lit. covering

and if you keep all these commandments and do them, which I command you today, to love the Lord your God and to walk always in His ways, (A)then you shall add three more cities for yourself besides these three, 10 (B)lest innocent blood be shed in the midst of your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and thus guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

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37 (A)They even sacrificed their sons
And their daughters to (B)demons,
38 And shed innocent blood,
The blood of their sons and daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And (C)the land was polluted with blood.
39 Thus they [a]were (D)defiled by their own works,
And (E)played[b] the harlot by their own deeds.

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  1. Psalm 106:39 became unclean
  2. Psalm 106:39 Were unfaithful

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