Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
Parallel translations
- KJV 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.
- BSB 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.
- NKJV Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.
- NASB You shall not pity him, but you shall eliminate the guilt for the bloodshed of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well for you.
- NLT Do not feel sorry for that murderer! Purge from Israel the guilt of murdering innocent people; then all will go well with you.
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Cross-references & the web
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- 1 Kgs 2:31The 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 7:2and when Yahweh your God delivers them up before you, and you strike them; then you shall utterly destroy them. You shall make no covenant with them, nor show mercy to them;
- Deut 7:16You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you. Your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that would be a snare to you.
- Deut 21:9So you shall put away the innocent blood from among you, when you shall do that which is right in Yahweh’s eyes.
- Num 35:33–34“‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
- 2 Sam 21:1There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of Yahweh. Yahweh said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
- Lev 24:17“‘He who strikes any man mortally shall surely be put to death.
- Deut 25:12then you shall cut off her hand. Your eye shall have no pity.
- Ezek 16:5No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you, to have compassion on you; but you were cast out in the open field, because you were abhorred in the day that you were born.
- Lev 24:21He who kills an animal shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.
- Gen 9:6Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
- 2 Sam 21:14They buried the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer for the land.
- Deut 13:8you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;
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