27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like swhitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all tuncleanness.
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Job 13:4
As for you, you whitewash with lies;
worthless physicians are you all.
Ezekiel 13:10
Precisely because they have misled my people, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets smear it with whitewash,
Ezekiel 22:28
And her prophets have smeared whitewash for them, seeing false visions and divining lies for them, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD,’ when the LORD has not spoken.
Acts 23:3
Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?”
Numbers 19:16
Whoever in the open field touches someone who was killed with a sword or who died naturally, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
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