Deuteronomy 21:7
And shall say: Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- et dicent : Manus nostræ non effuderunt sanguinem hunc, nec oculi viderunt :
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀποκριθέντες ἐροῦσιν Αἱ χεῖρες ἡμῶν οὐκ ἐξέχεαν τὸ αἷμα τοῦτο, καὶ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἡμῶν οὐχ ἑωράκασιν·
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וְעָנ֖וּ וְאָמְר֑וּ יָדֵ֗ינוּ לֹ֤א שפכה אֶת הַדָּ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה וְעֵינֵ֖ינוּ לֹ֥א רָאֽוּ
Haydock's commentary
It. Magistrates are in some degree responsible, if by their neglect the high roads are unsafe. (Calmet)
They had testified that they had done their duty. (Worthington)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.