Deuteronomy 19:13 “You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of s…”

Deuteronomy 19:13

You must show him no pity. You are to purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, that it may go well with you.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Thine eye shall not spare him, but thou shalt put away the crie of innocent blood from Israel, that it may goe well with thee.

Darby Translation

Thine eye shall not spare him; and thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, that it may be well with thee.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.

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Cross references

“Thine eye”

Deuteronomy 7:16 Deuteronomy 13:8 Deuteronomy 25:12 Ezekiel 16:5

Deuteronomy 7:16 · BSB

You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 13:8 · BSB

you must not yield to him or listen to him. Show him no pity, and do not spare him or shield him.

Deuteronomy 25:12 · BSB

you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.

Ezekiel 16:5 · BSB

No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.

“but thou”

1 Kings 2:31 Deuteronomy 21:9 2 Samuel 21:1 Genesis 9:6 Leviticus 24:17 Leviticus 24:21

1 Kings 2:31 · BSB

And the king replied, “Do just as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so remove from me and from the house of my father the innocent blood that Joab shed.

Deuteronomy 21:9 · BSB

So you shall purge from among you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

2 Samuel 21:1 · BSB

During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites…

Genesis 9:6 · BSB

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.

Leviticus 24:17 · BSB

And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21 · BSB

Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.

Also

Deuteronomy 7:2

Deuteronomy 7:2 · BSB

and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

12the elders of his city must send for him, bring him back, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.

14You must not move your neighbor’s boundary marker, which was set up by your ancestors to mark the inheritance you shall receive in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

Read Deuteronomy 19