Num 35:33-34 | 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.

Numbers 35:33-34

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. 34 ^dYou shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, ^efor I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”