Deuteronomy 19:13

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

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In The 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.

In Context

12then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

14Thou shall not remove thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shall inherit, in the land that LORD thy God gives thee to possess it.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:6Whoever sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed. For in the image of God he made man.

Leviticus 24:21And he who kills a beast shall make it good. And he who kills a man shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:33So ye shall not pollute the land in which ye are, for blood, it pollutes the land. And no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.

Deuteronomy 7:16And thou shall consume all the peoples that LORD thy God shall deliver to thee. Thine eye shall not pity them. Neither shall thou serve their gods, for that will be a snare to thee.

Deuteronomy 21:9So shall thou put away the innocent blood from the midst of thee when thou shall do that which is right in the eyes of LORD.

2 Samuel 21:1And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of LORD. And LORD said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 19:2-14

The Cities of Refuge. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 When the Lord thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the Lord thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses; 2 Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it. 3 Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the Lord thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither. 4 And this is the case of… Read the whole commentary →

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