Deuteronomy 21:9

In this way you will put away the innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

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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

8Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not put guilt for innocent bloodshed in the midst of your people Israel.' Then the bloodshed will be forgiven them.

10When you go out to do battle against your enemies and Yahweh your God gives you victory and puts them under your control, and you take them away as captives,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 12:25You will not eat it, so that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you will do what is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

Deuteronomy 19:12then the elders of his city must send and bring him back from there, and turn him over into the hand of the responsible relative, so that he may die.

2 Kings 10:30So Yahweh said to Jehu, “Because you have done well in executing what was right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your descendants will sit on the throne 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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