Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

New American Standard Bible

You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

You must not look on him with pity but purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and you will prosper.

International Standard Version

Have no pity on him, but totally purge the shedding of innocent blood from Israel so that life may go well with you."

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

You shall not pity him [the guilty one], but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

Bible in Basic English

Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.

Darby Translation

Thine eye shall not spare him; and thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, that it may be well with thee.

Julia Smith Translation

Thine eye shall not pity him and put away innocent blood from Israel, and it was well to thee.

King James 2000

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your eye shall not take pity on him, and you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, {so that good will be directed toward you}.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

NET Bible

You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

New Heart English Bible

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

The Emphasized Bible

thine eye shall not look with pity upon him, - so shall thou consume the shedding of innocent blood out of Israel and it shah go well with thee.

Webster

Thy eye shall not pity him, but thou shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may be well with thee.

World English Bible

Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

Youngs Literal Translation

thine eye hath no pity on him, and thou hast put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it is well with thee.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
shall not pity
חוּס 
Chuwc 
Usage: 24

him, but thou shalt put away
בּער 
Ba`ar 
Usage: 94

the guilt of innocent
נקיא נקי 
Naqiy 
Usage: 43

דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

that it may go well
טוב 
Towb 
Usage: 31

References

Context Readings

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him away from there and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood so that he may die. 13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you. 14 You may not remove your neighbor's landmark, which those in the past have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land which Jehovah your God gives you to possess it.

Cross References

1 Kings 2:31

And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him, so that you may take away the innocent blood which Joab shed, from me and from the house of my father.

Deuteronomy 7:2

and Jehovah your God shall deliver them before you, you shall crush them, completely destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them nor show mercy to them.

Deuteronomy 7:16

And you shall destroy all the people which Jehovah your God shall deliver you. Your eye shall have no pity upon them, neither shall you serve their gods, for they will be a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 21:9

So you shall put away innocent blood from among you, when you do the right in the sight of Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 25:12

then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall not pity.

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds man's blood, his blood shall be shed by man; for He made man in the image of God.

Leviticus 24:17

And he who kills any man shall surely be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

And he who kills an animal shall restore it. And he who kills a man shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:33-34

So you shall not defile the land in which you are. For blood defiles the land. And the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of him that shed it.

Deuteronomy 13:8

you shall not consent to him nor listen to him. Nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare, nor shall you hide him.

2 Samuel 21:1

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year. And David inquired of Jehovah. And Jehovah answered, For Saul, and for his bloody house, because he killed the Gibeonites.

2 Samuel 21:14

And they buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin in Zelah, in the tomb of his father Kish. And they did all that the king commanded. And afterward God heeded prayer for the land.

Ezekiel 16:5

No eye pitied you, to do any of these to you, to have compassion on you. But you were thrown out into the open field, because your life was despised in the day that you were born.

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