Deuteronomy 21:9

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

Targum Onkelos

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

8And the priests shall say, Forgive Thy people Israel whom Thou, O Lord, hast redeemed, and let not the guilt of innocent blood be among Thy people Israel. And it shall be forgiven them concerning the blood:

10When thou goest out to war against thy enemies, and the Lord thy God doth deliver them into thy hand, and thou takest them captive;

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:25Thou shalt not eat it, that it may be well with thee and with thy children after thee, when thou doest that which is right before the Lord.

Deuteronomy 19:12Then the elders of his city shall send and take him from thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, and he shall die.

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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