Psalm 106:38 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁸ they poured out innocent blood, the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁸ And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: And the land was polluted with blood.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁸ And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan; and the land was polluted with their blood.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁸ And shed innocent blood, Even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, Whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan; And the land was polluted with blood.

Common English Bible

³⁸ They shed innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters— the ones they sacrificed to Canaan’s false gods— so the land was defiled by the bloodshed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁸ And he blessed them, and they were multiplied exceedingly. And he did not diminish their beasts of burden.

Psalm 106:38 Cross References

Numbers 35:33

You shall not pollute the land in which you live, for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

Isaiah 26:21

For the Lord comes out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the earth will disclose the blood shed on it and will no longer cover its slain.

2 Kings 21:16

Moreover, Manasseh shed very much innocent blood, until he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another, besides the sin that he caused Judah to sin so that they did what was evil in the sight of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 21:9

So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, because you must do what is right in the sight of the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:3

You shall say: Thus says the Lord God: A city! Shedding blood within itself; its time has come; making its idols, defiling itself.

Ezekiel 7:23

Make a chain! For the land is full of bloody crimes; the city is full of violence.

Jeremiah 2:34

Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things

Isaiah 24:5

The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants, for they have transgressed laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 1:15

When you stretch out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

2 Kings 24:4

and also for the innocent blood that he had shed, for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to pardon.

Leviticus 18:21

You shall not give any of your offspring to sacrifice them to Molech and so profane the name of your God: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 18:25

Thus the land became defiled, and I punished it for its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

2 Kings 17:17

They made their sons and their daughters pass through fire, used divination and augury, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.

Jeremiah 19:4

Because the people have forsaken me and have profaned this place by making offerings in it to other gods whom neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah have known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent

Ezekiel 16:20

You took your sons and your daughters, whom you had borne to me, and these you sacrificed to them to be devoured. As if your prostitutions were not enough!