Deuteronomy 19:13

thine eye hath no pity on him, and thou hast put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it is well with thee.

Young's Literal Translation

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 have sent and taken him from thence, and given him into the hand of the redeemer of blood, and he hath died;

14'Thou dost not remove a border of thy neighbour, which they of former times have made, in thine inheritance, which thou dost inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee to possess it.

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Cross References

Genesis 9:6whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man is his blood shed: for in the image of God hath He made man.

Leviticus 24:21'And he who smiteth a beast repayeth it, and he who smiteth [the life of] man is put to death;

Numbers 35:33'And ye profane not the land which ye [are] in, for blood profaneth the land; as to the land, it is not pardoned for blood which is shed in it except by the blood of him who sheddeth it;

Deuteronomy 7:16'And thou hast consumed all the peoples whom Jehovah thy God is giving to thee; thine eye hath no pity on them, and thou dost not serve their gods, for a snare it [is] to thee.

Deuteronomy 21:9and thou dost put away the innocent blood out of thy midst, for thou dost that which [is] right in the eyes of Jehovah.

2 Samuel 21:1And there is a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, and David seeketh the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah saith, 'For Saul and for the bloody house, because that 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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