and they shall answer and say, ‘Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it. [a]Forgive Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, O Lord, and do not place the guilt of (A)innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel.’ And the bloodguiltiness shall be [b]forgiven them.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 21:8 Lit Cover over, atone for
  2. Deuteronomy 21:8 Lit covered over, atoned for

38 And shed (A)innocent blood,
The blood of their (B)sons and their daughters,
Whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan;
And the land was (C)polluted with the blood.

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