Deuteronomy 21:6
And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
And all the elders of that city that are next unto the slain man,.... The whole court of judicature belonging to it, all the magistracy of it; even though there were an hundred of them, Maimonides (x)…
Care had been taken by some preceding laws for the vigorous and effectual persecution of a wilful murderer (Deu 19:11 etc.), the putting of whom to death was the putting away of the guilt of blood…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
wash their hands thus disowning their own and their community's guilt. Psa 26:6; Psa 73:13; Mat 27:24.
over the heifer As representing the murderer or the murder?
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