Deuteronomy 27:25

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Cursed `is' he who is taking a bribe to smite a person, innocent blood, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

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  • Exod 23:7-8 : 7 from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man. 8 `And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open-`eyed', and perverteth the words of the righteous.
  • Deut 10:17 : 17 for Jehovah your God -- He `is' God of the gods, and Lord of the lords; God, the great, the mighty, and the fearful; who accepteth not persons, nor taketh a bribe;
  • Deut 16:19 : 19 Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
  • Ps 15:5 : 5 His silver he hath not given in usury, And a bribe against the innocent Hath not taken; Whoso is doing these is not moved to the age!
  • Prov 1:11-29 : 11 If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause, 12 We swallow them as Sheol -- alive, And whole -- as those going down `to' the pit, 13 Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses `with' spoil, 14 Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is -- to all of us.' 15 My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path, 16 For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird. 18 And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives. 19 So `are' the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh. 20 Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice, 21 At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith: 22 `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge? 23 Turn back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you. 24 Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending, 25 And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired. 26 I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride when your fear cometh, 27 When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress. 28 Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not. 29 Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
  • Ezek 22:12-13 : 12 A bribe they have taken in thee to shed blood, Usury and increase thou hast taken, And cuttest off thy neighbour by oppression, And Me thou hast forgotten, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah! 13 And lo, I have smitten My hand, Because of thy dishonest gain that thou hast gained, And for thy blood that hath been in thy midst.
  • Mic 3:10-11 : 10 Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity. 11 Her heads for a bribe do judge, And her priests for hire do teach, And her prophets for silver divine, And on Jehovah they lean, saying, `Is not Jehovah in our midst? Evil doth not come in upon us.'
  • Mic 7:2-3 : 2 Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt `with' a net. 3 On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.
  • Matt 26:15 : 15 `What are ye willing to give me, and I will deliver him up to you?' and they weighed out to him thirty silverlings,
  • Matt 27:3-4 : 3 Then Judas -- he who delivered him up -- having seen that he was condemned, having repented, brought back the thirty silverlings to the chief priests, and to the elders, saying, 4 `I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What -- to us? thou shalt see!'
  • Acts 1:18 : 18 this one, indeed, then, purchased a field out of the reward of unrighteousness, and falling headlong, burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed forth,

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    15 `Cursed `is' the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put `it' in a secret place, -- and all the people have answered and said, Amen.

    16 `Cursed `is' He who is making light of his father and his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

    17 `Cursed `is' he who is removing his neighbour's border, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

    18 `Cursed `is' he who is causing the blind to err in the way, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

    19 `Cursed `is' he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

    20 `Cursed `is' he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

    21 `Cursed `is' he who is lying with any beast, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

    22 `Cursed `is' he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

    23 `Cursed `is' he who is lying with his mother-in-law, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

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  • Exod 23:7-8
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    7 from a false matter thou dost keep far off, and an innocent and righteous man thou dost not slay; for I do not justify a wicked man.

    8 `And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open-`eyed', and perverteth the words of the righteous.

  • 21 They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.

  • Num 35:30-31
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    30 whoso smiteth a person, by the mouth of witnesses doth `one' slay the murderer; and one witness doth not testify against a person -- to die.

    31 `And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who `is' condemned -- to die, for he is certainly put to death;

  • 10 and innocent blood is not shed in the midst of thy land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee -- an inheritance, and there hath been upon thee blood.

  • 17 `And when a man smiteth any soul of man, he is certainly put to death.

  • 10 Cursed `is' he who is doing the work of Jehovah slothfully, And cursed `is' he Who is withholding his sword from blood.

  • 24 Whoso is saying to the wicked, `Thou `art' righteous,' Peoples execrate him -- nations abhor him.

  • 9 `But thou dost surely kill him; thy hand is on him, in the first place, to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last;

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    12 then 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;

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

  • 21 `And he who smiteth a beast repayeth it, and he who smiteth `the life of' man is put to death;

  • 7 the hand of the witnesses is on him, in the first place, to put him to death, and the hand of all the people last; and thou hast put away the evil thing out of thy midst.

  • 4 `I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What -- to us? thou shalt see!'

  • 15 Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,

  • 25 and all the people answering said, `His blood `is' upon us, and upon our children!'

  • 23 Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.

  • 15 `And unto the sons of Israel thou dost speak, saying, When any man revileth his God -- then he hath borne his sin;

  • 27 And the people speak to him according to this word, saying, `Thus it is done to the man who smiteth him.'

  • Deut 21:8-9
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    8 receive atonement for Thy people Israel, whom Thou hast ransomed, O Jehovah, and suffer not innocent blood in the midst of Thy people Israel; and the blood hath been pardoned to them,

    9 and thou dost put away the innocent blood out of thy midst, for thou dost that which `is' right in the eyes of Jehovah.

  • 17 A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.

  • 13 In usury he hath given, and increase taken, And he liveth: he doth not live, All these abominations he hath done, He doth surely die, his blood is on him.

  • 12 `He who smiteth a man so that he hath died, is certainly put to death;

  • 20 A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.

  • 10 In whose hand `is' a wicked device, And their right hand `is' full of bribes.

  • 5 His silver he hath not given in usury, And a bribe against the innocent Hath not taken; Whoso is doing these is not moved to the age!

  • 14 `And when a man doth presume against his neighbour to slay him with subtilty, from Mine altar thou dost take him to die.

  • 11 If they say, `Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

  • 15 Only, know ye certainly, that if ye are putting me to death, surely innocent blood ye are putting on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly hath Jehovah sent me unto you to speak in your ears all these words.'

  • 3 And he saith unto me, `This `is' the execration that is going forth over the face of all the land, for every one who is stealing, on the one side, according to it, hath been declared innocent, and every one who hath sworn, on the other side, according to it, hath been declared innocent.

  • 30 `If atonement is laid upon him, then he hath given the ransom of his life, according to all that is laid upon him;

  • 22 For His blessed ones do possess the land, And His reviled ones are cut off.

  • 9 `For any man who revileth his father and his mother is certainly put to death; his father and his mother he hath reviled: his blood `is' on him.

  • 17 But thine eyes and thy heart are not, Except on thy dishonest gain, And on shedding of innocent blood, And on oppression, and on doing of violence.

  • 17 `And he who is reviling his father or his mother is certainly put to death.