Deuteronomy 19:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.”
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“You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“thine eye hath no pity on him, and thou hast put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it is well with thee.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Deuteronomy 19:13 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 9:6Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
- Leviticus 24:17And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.
- Leviticus 24:21Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.
- Numbers 35:31You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:33Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.
- 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 13:8you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him.
- Deuteronomy 21:9So you shall purge from among you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 25:12you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.
- 2 Samuel 21:1During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
- 2 Samuel 21:14And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in Zela in the land of Benjamin, in the tomb of Saul’s father Kish. After they had done everything the king had commanded, God answered their prayers for the land.
- 1 Kings 2:31And the king replied, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood that Joab shed.
- Ezekiel 16:5No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).