⁶ All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

¹³ Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocence,

⁶ I will wash my hands in innocence, So I will go about your altar, Yahweh;

¹⁰ being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

²⁴ So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."

²⁵ All the people answered, "May his blood be on us, and on our children!"

²² For though you wash yourself with lye, and use much soap, yet your iniquity is marked before me, says the Lord Yahweh.

¹⁴ Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, the God of my salvation. My tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

⁷ Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.

² Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.

¹² Who can discern his errors? Forgive me from hidden errors.

³⁰ If I wash myself with snow, And cleanse my hands with lye,