Deuteronomy 19:13

your eye has no pity on him, and you have put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it is well with you.

Literal Standard Version

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

12and [the] elderly of his city have sent and taken him from there, and given him into the hand of the redeemer of blood, and he has died;

14You do not remove a border of your neighbor, which they of former times have made, in your inheritance, which you inherit in the land which your God YHWH is giving to you to possess it.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:6whoever sheds man’s blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God has He made man.

Leviticus 24:21And he who strikes a beast repays it, and he who strikes [the life of] man is put to death.

Numbers 35:33And you do not profane the land which you [are] in, for blood profanes the land; as for the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheds it;

Deuteronomy 7:16And you have consumed all the peoples whom your God YHWH is giving to you; your eye has no pity on them, and you do not serve their gods, for it [is] a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 21:9and you put away the innocent blood out of your midst, for you do that which [is] right in the eyes of YHWH.

2 Samuel 21:1And there is a famine in the days of David [for] three years, year after year, and David seeks the face of YHWH, and YHWH says, “[This is] for Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put the Gibeonites to death.”

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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