 | Laura Lunger Knoppers - Religion - 2003 - 272 pages
...innocent blood in accordance with the requirements of the Book of Numbers (35:33): "Ye shall not defile the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the...is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it."1" The application of this text to that man of blood, Charles Stuart, sustained many in the months... | |
 | Ben Jones - Fiction - 2003 - 306 pages
...the surface. Griffin had moved up to the rail beside me and he spoke softly, almost under his breath: "And the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that...shed therein but by the blood of him that shed it." He stood gazing for long moments, his jaw clenched tightly, then turned and returned to the deckhouse.... | |
 | Joseph Lewis - Religion - 2003 - 168 pages
...Proof of the belief in blood pollution is the extremely significant statement in the above verse that "the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by blood of him that shed it." This is the basis for the practice of blood atonement. The necessity for... | |
 | Russell Kirk - Fiction - 2004 - 444 pages
...strode across the great gulf of Time. £cx Qlionis So vc shall not pollute the land whereinye arc: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot...shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. Numbers ?s:?i As twilight sank upon the wrack and glitter of the old city. Eddie Mahaffy walked beneath... | |
 | Dale S. Recinella - Law - 2004 - 474 pages
...it. Num. 35i33 TNK So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye arei for blood it defileth the landi and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that...shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. Num. 35i33 AV Bloodshed pollutes the land, and atonement cannot be made for the land on which blood... | |
 | Christie Davies - History - 290 pages
...would often quote this text when sentencing a murderer to death (Potter 1993: 55-63), sometimes adding "The land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein but by the blood of him that shed it" (Numbers: 35:33: King James Bible). Death by hanging for murder was expiation and atonement. After... | |
 | William R. Newell - Religion - 1938 - 596 pages
...is guilty of death. For blood, it polluteth the land, and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it" (Num. 35.31,33). 4. Note that in the above quotation, the crime of murder is said by God so to pollute... | |
 | Matilda Koén-Sarano - Folk literature, Ladino - 2004 - 444 pages
...death penalty. We see that even in the face of the verse "And no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it,"13 God himself cared enough about Cain's life to give him a relatively mild punishment (wandering... | |
 | A. S. Diamond - Law - 2004 - 442 pages
...fled to his city of refuge that he should return to dwell in the land until the death of the Priest. So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are, for blood, it polluteth the land.' 1 Num. 35»».. 2 In England, under the Assize of Clarendon (1166) he can abjure... | |
 | Goulder - Religion - 2004 - 276 pages
...word, its superstition. In Israelite belief murder could be expiated only by the death of the murderer. 'So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood, it polluteth the land: and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but... | |
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So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are : for blood it defileth the land : and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it. 
