Deuteronomy 21:9

World English Bible (2000)

So you shall put away the innocent blood from the midst of you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

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  • Deut 13:18 : 18 when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.
  • Deut 19:12-13 : 12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
  • 2 Kgs 10:30-31 : 30 Yahweh said to Jehu, "Because you have done well in executing that which is right in my eyes, [and] have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel." 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn't depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.

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  • Deut 19:12-13
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    12 then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

    13 Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

  • Deut 21:6-8
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    6 All the elders of that city, who are nearest to the slain man, shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley;

    7 and they shall answer and say, "Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

    8 Forgive, Yahweh, your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and don't allow innocent blood [to remain] in the midst of your people Israel." The blood shall be forgiven them.

  • Deut 19:10
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    10 that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.

  • Deut 19:19-21
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    19 then you shall do to him as he had thought to do to his brother: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

    20 Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of you.

    21 Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

  • Exod 23:7
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    7 "Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

  • Num 35:33
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    33 "'So you shall not pollute the land in which you are: for blood, it pollutes the land; and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him who shed it.

  • Jer 22:3
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    3 Thus says Yahweh: Execute justice and righteousness, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the foreigner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

  • 1 Kgs 2:31
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    31 The king said to him, "Do as he has said, and fall on him, and bury him; that you may take away the blood, which Joab shed without cause, from me and from my father's house.

  • Deut 13:8-9
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    8 you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him:

    9 but you shall surely kill him; your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.

  • Deut 17:7
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    7 The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.

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

  • Deut 6:18-19
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    18 You shall do that which is right and good in the sight of Yahweh; that it may be well with you, and that you may go in and possess the good land which Yahweh swore to your fathers,

    19 to thrust out all your enemies from before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

  • Deut 21:10
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    10 When you go forth to battle against your enemies, and Yahweh your God delivers them into your hands, and you carry them away captive,

  • Deut 19:3
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    3 You shall prepare you the way, and divide the borders of your land, which Yahweh your God causes you to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.

  • Deut 16:20
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    20 You shall follow that which is altogether just, that you may live, and inherit the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

  • Ps 94:21
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    21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

  • Jer 7:5-6
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    5 For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;

    6 if you don't oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don't shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

  • 2 Kgs 21:16
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    16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; besides his sin with which he made Judah to sin, in doing that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.

  • Num 31:19
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    19 "Encamp outside of the camp seven days: whoever has killed any person, and whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves on the third day and on the seventh day, you and your captives.

  • Deut 21:1-2
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    1 If one be found slain in the land which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it, lying in the field, and it isn't known who has struck him;

    2 then your elders and your judges shall come forth, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain:

  • Num 35:19
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    19 The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death: when he meets him, he shall put him to death.

  • Jer 22:17
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    17 But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

  • Deut 13:17-18
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    17 Nothing of the devoted thing shall cling to your hand; that Yahweh may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and show you mercy, and have compassion on you, and multiply you, as he has sworn to your fathers;

    18 when you shall listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, to keep all his commandments which I command you this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh your God.

  • Joel 3:19
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    19 Egypt will be a desolation, and Edom will be a desolate wilderness, for the violence done to the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.

  • 2 Chr 19:10
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    10 Whenever any controversy shall come to you from your brothers who dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and ordinances, you shall warn them, that they not be guilty towards Yahweh, and so wrath come on you and on your brothers. Do this, and you shall not be guilty.

  • 1 Sam 19:5
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    5 for he put his life in his hand, and struck the Philistine, and Yahweh worked a great victory for all Israel. You saw it, and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood, to kill David without a cause?"

  • Ezek 18:5
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    5 But if a man is just, and does that which is lawful and right,

  • Deut 13:11
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    11 All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more such wickedness as this is in the midst of you.

  • Deut 12:25
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    25 You shall not eat it; that it may go well with you, and with your children after you, when you shall do that which is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

  • Josh 2:19
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    19 It shall be that whoever goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, and we will be guiltless. Whoever is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.

  • Isa 1:16
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    16 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.

  • 2 Sam 4:11
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    11 How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house on his bed, shall I not now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?"

  • Deut 27:25
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    25 'Cursed is he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.' All the people shall say, 'Amen.'

  • Num 35:27
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    27 and the avenger of blood find him outside of the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kill the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,

  • Num 35:24
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    24 then the congregation shall judge between the striker and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

  • 1 Kgs 2:9
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    9 Now therefore don't hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man; and you will know what you ought to do to him, and you shall bring his gray head down to Sheol with blood."

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    31 "'Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

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    4 Don't say in your heart, after Yahweh your God has thrust them out from before you, saying, "For my righteousness Yahweh has brought me in to possess this land;" because Yahweh drives them out before you because of the wickedness of these nations.

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    29 "'These things shall be for a statute [and] ordinance to you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.