Deuteronomy 21:9

So you will take away the crime of a death without cause from among you, when you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

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In The King James Version

So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.

In Context

8Have mercy, O Lord, on your people Israel whom you have made free, and take away from your people the crime of a death without cause. Then they will no longer be responsible for the man's death.

10When you go out to war against other nations, and the Lord your God gives them up into your hands and you take them as prisoners;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:25Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 19:12The responsible men of his town are to send and take him, and give him up to the one who has the right of punishment to be put to death.

2 Kings 10:30And the Lord said to Jehu, Because you have done well in doing what is right in my eyes and effecting all my purpose for the family of Ahab, your sons will be kings of Israel to the fourth generation.

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 21:2-10

Undetected Murder. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain him: 2 Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain: 3 And it shall be, that the city which is next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take a heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 4 And the elders of… Read the whole commentary →

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