7and they shall declare: "Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done.


In Context

4 and lead her down to a valley that has not been plowed or planted and where there is a flowing stream. There in the valley they are to break the heifer's neck.

5 The priests, the sons of Levi, shall step forward, for the Lord your God has chosen them to minister and to pronounce blessings in the name of the Lord and to decide all cases of dispute and assault.

6 Then all the elders of the town nearest the body shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,

7 and they shall declare: "Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done.

8 Accept this atonement for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, O Lord , and do not hold your people guilty of the blood of an innocent man." And the bloodshed will be atoned for.

9 So you will purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the Lord .

Deuteronomy 21:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:7And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen [it. ]

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

21:7And shall say: Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

21:7and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:7and shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

21:7and they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:7And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

21:7and they shall answer and say, |Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

21:7and they have answered and said, Our hands have not shed this blood, and our eyes have not seen —

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

21:7And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.