Parallel Verses

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.

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 bloodguiltiness be on you.

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."

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.

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.

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נקיא נקי 
Naqiy 
Usage: 43

דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

be not shed
שׁפך 
Shaphak 
Usage: 115

in
קרב 
Qereb 
Usage: 226

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

which the Lord

Usage: 0

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

נתן 
Nathan 
Usage: 2011

נחלה 
Nachalah 
Usage: 222

and so blood
דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

References

Context Readings

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

9 - so that thou keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, that thou love the LORD thy God and walk in his ways ever - then thou shalt add three cities more unto those three, 10 that innocent blood be not shed in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, and so blood come upon thee. 11 But and if there be any man that hateth his neighbour and layeth await for him and riseth against him and smiteth him that he die, and fleeth unto any of these cities;

Cross References

Numbers 35:33

"'And see that ye pollute not the land which ye are in, for blood defileth the land. And the land can none otherwise be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of it that shed it.

Deuteronomy 19:13

Let thine eye have no pity on him, and so thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, and happy art thou.

Deuteronomy 21:1-9

If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, and lieth in the fields, and not known who hath slain him:

1 Kings 2:31

And the king said, "Do even as he hath said: smite him and bury him, and take away the blood which Joab shed, causeless, from me and from the house of my father.

2 Kings 21:16

And thereto Manasseh shed innocent blood exceeding abundantly, in so much that he replenished Jerusalem in all corners, beside his sin wherewith he made Judah sin and to do evil in the sight of the LORD.

2 Kings 24:4

and for the innocent blood that he shed and filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, which the LORD would not forgive.

Psalm 94:21

They gather them together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

Proverbs 6:17

A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,

Isaiah 59:7

Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their counsels are wicked counsels; harm and destruction are in their ways.

Jeremiah 7:6-7

If ye will not oppress the stranger, the fatherless and the widow; if ye will not shed innocent blood in this place; if ye will not cleave to strange gods to your own destruction;

Joel 3:19

Egypt shall go to ruin, and Edom shall be a desert and a wilderness, which oppressed the children of Israel, and which shed innocent blood in their land.

Jonah 1:14

Wherefore they cried unto the LORD and said, "O LORD let us not perish for this man's death, neither lay innocent blood unto our charge: for thou LORD, even as thy pleasure was, so thou hast done."

Matthew 27:4-5

saying, "I have sinned, betraying the innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? see thou to that."

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