Deuteronomy 19:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹³ Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may be well with you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Your eyes shall not pity him, but you shall clear Israel of the guilt of innocent blood, that it may go well with you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

Common English Bible

¹³ Show no mercy to such killers. Remove innocent bloodshed from Israel so that things go well for you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ You shall not take pity on him, and so shall you take away the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may be well with you.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of innocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.

Deuteronomy 19:13 Cross References

Genesis 9:6

Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for God made man in his own image.

2 Samuel 14:7

And now the whole family has risen against your handmaid, and they say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew’; and so they would destroy the heir also. Thus they would quench my coal which is left, and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant upon the face of the earth.”

2 Samuel 21:1

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

2 Samuel 21:14

And they buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of Kish his father; and they did all that the king commanded. And after that God heeded supplications for the land.

1 Kings 2:31

The king replied to him, “Do as he has said, strike him down and bury him; and thus take away from me and from my father's house the guilt for the blood which Joab shed without cause.

Ezekiel 16:5

No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you; but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.

Leviticus 24:17

He who kills a man shall be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

He who kills a beast shall make it good; and he who kills a man shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:31

Moreover you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death; but he shall be put to death.

Deuteronomy 13:8

you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall you spare him, nor shall you conceal him;

Deuteronomy 19:12

then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die.

Deuteronomy 19:21

Your eye shall not pity; it shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Deuteronomy 21:9

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

Deuteronomy 25:12

then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall have no pity.

Deuteronomy 7:16

And you shall destroy all the peoples that the Lord your God will give over to you, your eye shall not pity them; neither shall you serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them; then you must utterly destroy them; you shall make no covenant with them, and show no mercy to them.