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“‘So you shall not pollute the land where you live; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
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Verse 33. Defile not. To inspire a greater horror for murder the earth was represented as defiled by blood, and only to be purified by the death of the criminal. Without shedding of blood, there is no remission. Hebrews 9:22. Bible.—On the same principle, our churches, and so forth are deemed profane when murder, or some great indecencies, have been committed in them, so that they require a fresh consecration. Calmet.
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