Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of thy land, which LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
New American Standard Bible
So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which the Lord your God gives you as an inheritance, and
King James Version
That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
Holman Bible
In this way, innocent blood will not be shed, and you will not become guilty of bloodshed in the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
International Standard Version
You must not shed innocent blood on your land that the LORD your God is about to give you as an inheritance. Otherwise, you'll be guilty of murder."
American Standard Version
that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
Amplified
so that innocent blood will not be shed [by blood avengers] in your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, and blood guilt will not be on you [for the death of an innocent man].
Bible in Basic English
So that in all your land, which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, no man may be wrongly put to death, for which you will be responsible.
Darby Translation
that innocent blood be not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and blood come not upon thee.
Julia Smith Translation
And innocent blood shall not be poured out in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God gave to thee an inheritance, and bloods were upon thee.
King James 2000
That innocent blood be not shed in your land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be upon you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Do this] so that innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land that Yahweh your God [is] giving to you [as an] inheritance and [thereby] bloodguilt would be on you.
Modern King James verseion
so that innocent blood may not be shed in your land which Jehovah your God gives you for an inheritance, and blood may not be on you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that innocent blood be not shed in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, and so blood come upon thee.
NET Bible
You must not shed innocent blood in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.
New Heart English Bible
that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
The Emphasized Bible
that innocent blood may not be sired in the midst of thy land, which Yahweh thy God is giving unto thee as an inheritance, - and so shed-blood be upon thee.
Webster
That innocent blood may not be shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
World English Bible
that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
Youngs Literal Translation
and innocent blood is not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance, and there hath been upon thee blood.
Interlinear
Naqiy
'erets
'elohiym
Nathan
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Deuteronomy 19:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity
9 if thou shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways, then shall thou add three more cities for thee, besides these three, 10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of thy land, which LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee. 11 But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and smites him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities,
Cross References
Numbers 35:33
So ye shall not pollute the land in which ye are, for blood, it pollutes the land. And no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
Deuteronomy 19:13
Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
Deuteronomy 21:1-9
If a man is found slain in the land which LORD thy God gives thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it not be known who has smitten him,
1 Kings 2:31
And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall upon him, and bury him, that thou may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.
2 Kings 21:16
Moreover Manasseh shed very much innocent blood till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin in doing that which was evil in the sight of LORD.
2 Kings 24:4
and also for the innocent blood that he shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and LORD would not pardon.
Psalm 94:21
They gather themselves together against the soul of a righteous man, and condemn innocent blood.
Proverbs 6:17
haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.
Jeremiah 7:6-7
if ye do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own hurt,
Joel 3:19
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the sons of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Jonah 1:14
Therefore they cried to LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood. For thou, O LORD, have done as it pleased thee.
Matthew 27:4-5
saying, I sinned, having betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is it to us? See thou to it.