Deuteronomy 27:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ “ ‘Cursed be anyone who takes a bribe to shed innocent blood.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ Cursed is he who takes a bribe to slay an innocent person. All the people shall say, Amen.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ Cursed be he that taketh a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Common English Bible

²⁵ “Cursed is anyone who accepts money to kill an innocent person.” All the people will reply: “We agree!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ Cursed be he who accepts gifts in order to strike down the life of innocent blood. And all the people shall say: Amen.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ Cursed be he that taketh gifts, to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say: Amen.

Deuteronomy 27:25 Cross References

Psalm 15:5

who do not lend money at interest and do not take a bribe against the innocent. Those who do these things shall never be moved.

Leviticus 19:16

You shall not go around as a slanderer among your people, and you shall not stand idly by when the blood of your neighbor is at stake: I am the Lord.

Matthew 26:15

and said, “What will you give me if I betray him to you?” They paid him thirty pieces of silver.

Acts 1:18

(Now this man acquired a field with the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong, he burst open in the middle, and all his bowels gushed out.

Deuteronomy 10:17

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe,

Deuteronomy 16:19

You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.

Judges 9:24

This happened so that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might be avenged and their blood be laid on their brother Abimelech, who killed them, and on the lords of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to kill his brothers.