Deuteronomy 13:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.”
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“Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.”
King James Version · Public Domain“but thou shalt surely kill him; thy hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`But thou dost surely kill him; thy hand is on him, in the first place, to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 13:9 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 7:2and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.
- Deuteronomy 7:16You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
- Deuteronomy 17:2If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant
- Deuteronomy 25:12you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.
- Matthew 10:37Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me;
- Luke 14:26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
- John 8:7When they continued to question Him, He straightened up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her.”
- Acts 7:58They dragged him out of the city and began to stone him. Meanwhile the witnesses laid their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).