John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 35:33

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are, etc.] 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” f527, 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 <010906>Genesis 9:6).

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