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'Shed Innocent Blood' in the 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.

They shed innocent blood -- the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan. The land was polluted by bloodshed.

The words of the wicked lie in wait to shed innocent blood, but the words of the upright will deliver them.

Egypt will be desolate and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, because of the violence they did to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.

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