...warned not to shed man's blood. The blood of the righteous was a pollutant that defiled the land, and 'the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is...shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it' (Numbers 35:33).63 In February 1642 Edmund Calamy preached before the House of Commons exhorting them...

...to the earth of the murdered victim. You shall not pollute the land; for blood defileth the land and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it ... defile not therefore the land . . . -Numbers 35:3 1-34 KJV All murderers must be executed, but...

...book of Numbers. "So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it." She was very quiet as they returned to the Applegate residence, as was the viscount, and her father...