Proverbs 28:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ If someone is burdened with the blood of another, let that killer be a fugitive until death; let no one offer assistance.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ If a man willfully sheds the blood of a person [and keeps the guilt of murder upon his conscience], he is fleeing to the pit (the grave) and hastening to his own destruction; let no man stop him!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ A man that is laden with the blood of any person Shall flee unto the pit; let no man stay him.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ If someone feels guilty about murder, don’t hold them back from fleeing to the pit.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ A man who slanders the blood of a life, even if he flees to the pit, no one will tolerate him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ A man that doth violence to the blood of a person, if he flee even to the pit, no man will stay him.

Proverbs 28:17 Krydshenvisninger

Genesis 4:12

When you till the ground, it will no longer yield to you its strength; you will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed, for in his own image God made humans.

2 Samuel 13:34

But Absalom fled. When the young man who kept watch looked up, he saw many people coming from the Horonaim road by the side of the mountain.

2 Samuel 18:15

And ten young men, Joab’s armor-bearers, surrounded Absalom and struck him and killed him.

1 Kings 2:29

When it was told King Solomon, “Joab has fled to the tent of the Lord and now is beside the altar,” Solomon sent Benaiah son of Jehoiada, saying, “Go, strike him down.”

1 Kings 21:19

You shall say to him: Thus says the Lord: Have you killed and also taken possession? You shall say to him: Thus says the Lord: In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth, dogs will also lick up your blood.”

1 Kings 21:23

Also concerning Jezebel the Lord said: The dogs shall eat Jezebel within the bounds of Jezreel.

2 Kings 9:26

‘For the blood of Naboth and for the blood of his children that I saw yesterday, says the Lord, I swear I will repay you on this very plot of ground.’ Now, therefore, lift him out and throw him on the plot of ground in accordance with the word of the Lord.”

Exodus 21:14

But if someone willfully attacks and kills another by treachery, you shall take the killer from my altar for execution.

Proverbs 6:17

haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Jeremiah 41:15

But Ishmael son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men and went to the Ammonites.

Acts 28:4

When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer; though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

Deuteronomy 19:11

“But if someone at enmity with another lies in wait and attacks and takes the life of that person and flees into one of these cities,