Deuteronomy 19:13

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Summary

Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

But thou

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Bible References

But thou

And [so] you shall purge the innocent blood from your midst, because you must do the right thing in the eyes of Yahweh.

"[As for] the one shedding the blood of humankind, by humankind his blood shall be shed, for God made humankind in his own image.

" 'And when a man kills any human being, he certainly shall be put to death.

So you will not pollute the land in which you are; because blood pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is poured out on it except with the blood of the one who poured it out.

There [was] a famine in the days of David [for] three years, year after year. And David {inquired of Yahweh}, and Yahweh said, "The bloodguilt [is] on Saul and on his household, because he killed the Gibeonites."

Then the king said to him, "Do as he spoke; fall upon him and bury him, and so you shall remove the innocent blood that Joab shed from on me and from on the house of my father.

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"You shall not murder.

" '{Whoever strikes someone} and he dies will surely be put to death.

[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.

then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not take pity.