Deuteronomy 19:10

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.

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  • Prov 6:17 : 17 A oud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
  • Matt 27:4-5 : 4 Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that. 5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
  • Jer 7:6-7 : 6 If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt: 7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
  • Joel 3:19 : 19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
  • Jonah 1:14 : 14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
  • Num 35:33 : 33 So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
  • Deut 19:13 : 13 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.
  • Deut 21:1-9 : 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 elrs 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 elrs of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with, and which hath not drawn in the yoke; 4 And the elrs of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley: 5 And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried: 6 And all the elrs of that city, that are next unto the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer that is behead in the valley: 7 And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it. 8 Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast reemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them. 9 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.
  • 1 Kgs 2:31 : 31 And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
  • 2 Kgs 21:16 : 16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • 2 Kgs 24:4 : 4 And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
  • Ps 94:21 : 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 19:11-14
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    11But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:

    12Then the elrs of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and liver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

    13Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

    14Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

  • Deut 21:8-9
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    8Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast reemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel's charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.

    9So 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.

  • Num 35:33
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    33So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

  • Deut 19:2-4
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    2Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.

    3Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divi the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.

    4And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;

  • Deut 19:6-7
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    6Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of ath, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.

    7Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.

  • Deut 5:17
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    17Thou shalt not kill.

  • Josh 20:5
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    5And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.

  • Exod 20:13
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    13Thou shalt not kill.

  • Deut 21:1-2
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    1If 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:

    2Then thy elrs and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which are round about him that is slain:

  • Josh 20:9
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    9These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

  • Exod 23:7
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    7Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.

  • Deut 13:8-9
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    8Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:

    9But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to ath, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

  • Num 35:27
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    27And the revenger of blood find him without the borders of the city of his refuge, and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood:

  • Josh 2:19
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    19And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.

  • Josh 20:3
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    3That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

  • Deut 12:16
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    16Only ye shall not eat the blood; ye shall pour it upon the earth as water.

  • 2 Chr 19:10
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    10And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.

  • Jer 7:6
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    6If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

  • Deut 16:20
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    20That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

  • Deut 19:9
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    9If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, besi these three:

  • Joel 3:19
    73%

    19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

  • Lev 19:16
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    16Thou shalt not go up and down as a tabearer among thy peop: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the LORD.

  • Exod 21:14
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    14But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

  • Lev 17:4
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    4And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernac of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernac of the LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his peop:

  • Jer 26:15
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    15But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

  • Num 35:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11Then ye shall appoint you cities to be cities of refuge for you; that the slayer may flee thither, which killeth any person at unawares.

    12And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.

  • Deut 19:20-21
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    20And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.

    21And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Prov 28:17
    72%

    17A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

  • Gen 9:6
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    6Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the ima of God made he man.

  • Deut 12:23-24
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    72%

    23Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

    24Thou shalt not eat it; thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water.

  • Deut 13:11
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    11And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

  • Deut 20:16
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    16But of the cities of these people, which the LORD thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

  • Deut 15:23
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    23Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water.

  • Deut 27:25
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    25Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • 2 Kgs 24:4
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    4And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.

  • Jer 19:4
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    4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

  • Num 35:19
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    19The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him.