Numbers 35:33-34

New International Reader's Version

³³ “ ‘Do not pollute the land where you are. Murder pollutes the land. Only one thing can pay to remove the pollution in the land where murder has been committed. The blood of the one who spilled another’s blood must be spilled. ³⁴ So do not make the land where you live “unclean,” because I live there too. I, the Lord, live among the Israelites.’ ”