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PURIFICATION, Washing hands in water, symbolical of innocency

Deuteronomy 21:6

6. And all the elders of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:

Psalms 26:6

6. I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD:

Matthew 27:24

24. When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.

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