Num 35:33, 2Ch 34:7, Jer 3:10, 4:14, Eze 22:24 | ESV | STEP | You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land , and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

a Ps. 106:38; Jer. 3:1, 2, 9; [Mic. 4:11]

b Ps. 106:38; Jer. 3:1, 2, 9; [Mic. 4:11]

cSee Gen. 9:6

d[See ver. 3 above]

e[Deut. 9:21]

f Hos. 7:14

g Ps. 51:2, 7; Isa. 1:16; James 4:8

hSee ver. 2-4

i[ch. 34:26]; See 1 Kgs. 8:35, 36

Numbers 35:33

33 You shall not ^apollute the land in which you live, for blood ^bpollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except ^cby the blood of the one who shed it.

2 Chronicles 34:7

7 he broke down the altars and beat the ^dAsherim and the images ^einto powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 3:10

10 Yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to me ^fwith her whole heart, but in pretense, declares the Lord.”

Jeremiah 4:14

14 O Jerusalem, ^gwash your heart from evil,
that you may be saved.
How long shall your wicked thoughts
lodge within you?

Ezekiel 22:24

24 “Son of man, say to her, You are a land that is ^hnot cleansed ⁱor rained upon in the day of indignation.