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


In Context

4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.

5 The priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Yahweh your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the name of Yahweh; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.

6 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

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

8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood to remain in the midst of your people Israel.| The blood shall be forgiven them.

9 So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

21:7and they shall declare: "Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it done.

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 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.