Parallel Verses

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.

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 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.

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.

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 have sent and taken him from thence, and given him into the hand of the redeemer of blood, and he hath died; 13 thine eye hath no pity on him, and thou hast put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it is well with thee. 14 'Thou dost not remove a border of thy neighbour, which they of former times have made, in thine inheritance, which thou dost inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it.

Cross References

1 Kings 2:31

And the king saith to him, 'Do as he hath spoken, and fall upon him, and thou hast buried him, and turned aside the causeless blood which Joab shed, from off me, and from off the house of my father;

Deuteronomy 7:2

and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and thou hast smitten them -- thou dost utterly devote them -- thou dost not make with them a covenant, nor dost thou favour them.

Deuteronomy 7:16

And thou hast consumed all the peoples whom Jehovah thy God is giving to thee; thine eye hath no pity on them, and thou dost not serve their gods, for a snare it is to thee.

Deuteronomy 21:9

and thou dost put away the innocent blood out of thy midst, for thou dost that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 25:12

then thou hast cut off her hand, thine eye doth not spare.

Genesis 9:6

whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

Leviticus 24:17

'And when a man smiteth any soul of man, he is certainly put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

And he who smiteth a beast repayeth it, and he who smiteth the life of man is put to death;

Numbers 35:33-34

And ye profane not the land which ye are in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it;

Deuteronomy 13:8

thou dost not consent to him, nor hearken unto him, nor doth thine eye have pity on him, nor dost thou spare, nor dost thou cover him over.

2 Samuel 21:1

And there is a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, and David seeketh the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah saith, 'For Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put to death the Gibeonites.'

2 Samuel 21:14

and bury the bones of Saul and of Jonathan his son in the land of Benjamin, in Zelah, in the burying-place of Kish his father, and do all that the king commanded, and God is entreated for the land afterwards.

Ezekiel 16:5

No eye hath had pity on thee, to do to thee any of these, To have compassion on thee, And thou art cast on the face of the field, With loathing of thy person. In the day thou hast been born -- thou!

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