Genesis 4:10 References
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He said, "What have you done? aThe voice of your brother's blood is crying to Me from the ground.
a Numbers 35:33, Deuteronomy 21:1-9, Hebrews 12:24, Revelation 6:9, Revelation 6:10
Numbers 35
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'aSo you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except bby the blood of him who shed it.
Deuteronomy 21
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"If a slain person is found lying in the open country in the land which the Lord your God gives you to possess, and it is not known who has struck him,
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then your elders and your judges shall go out and measure the distance to the cities which are around the slain one.
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"It shall be that the city which is nearest to the slain man, that is, the elders of that city, shall take a heifer of the herd, which has not been worked and which has not pulled in a yoke;
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and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which has not been plowed or sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
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"Then athe priests, the sons of Levi, shall come near, for the Lord your God has chosen them to serve Him and to bless in the name of the Lord; and every dispute and every assault shall be settled by them.
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"All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall awash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;
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and they shall answer and say, 'Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.
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'Forgive Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, O Lord, and do not place the guilt of ainnocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel.' And the bloodguiltiness shall be forgiven them.
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"aSo you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.
Hebrews 12
24
and to Jesus, the amediator of a new covenant, and to the bsprinkled blood, which speaks better than cthe blood of Abel.
Revelation 6
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When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw aunderneath the baltar the csouls of those who had been slain dbecause of the word of God, and because of the etestimony which they had maintained;