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 21:6
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21:7 Last Reading
[The elders] shall speak up and say, 'Our hands have not spilled this blood, and our eyes have not witnessed it.'
Ve'anu ve'amru yadenu lo shafchu et-hadam hazeh ve'eyneynu lo ra'u.
21:8 [The priests shall then say,] 'Forgive Your people, whom You, God, have liberated. Do not allow [the guilt for] innocent blood to remain with your people Israel.'

The blood shall thus be atoned for.
Kaper le'amecha Yisra'el asher-padita Adonay ve'al-titen dam naki bekerev amecha Yisra'el venikaper lahem hadam.



Commentary:

The elders
  (Sotah 46a; Yad, Rotze'ach 9:3).

The priests
  (Ibid.; Targum).

Forgive
  Or, 'reveal the truth' (Midrash Aggadah; Bachya).

The blood...
  (see note on Deuteronomy 21:7).





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