“And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.”
Absolve, O LORD, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed; do not let the guilt of innocent blood remain in the midst of your people Israel; and absolve them of bloodguilt — the prayer requests God's covenant mercy (kipar) to remove the land's defilement; the recognition that God alone can absolve bloodguilt places the ritual within God's sovereignty.
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