Deuteronomy 19:13

New American Bible - revised edition

Do not show pity, but purge from Israel the innocent blood, so that it may go well with you. Removal of Landmarks.

Cross References

Genesis 9:6

Anyone who sheds the blood of a human being, by a human being shall that one’s blood be shed; For in the image of God have human beings been made.

2 Samuel 14:7

Then the whole clan confronted your servant and demanded: ‘Give up the one who struck down his brother. We must put him to death for the life of his brother whom he has killed; we must do away with the heir also.’ Thus they will quench my remaining hope and leave my husband neither name nor posterity upon the earth.”

2 Samuel 21:1

In David’s time there was a famine for three years, year after year. David sought the presence of the Lord, who said: There is bloodguilt on Saul and his family because he put the Gibeonites to death.

2 Samuel 21:14

Then the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan were buried in the land of Benjamin, at Zela, in the tomb of his father Kish. After all that the king commanded had been carried out, God granted relief to the land. Exploits in Philistine Wars.

1 Kings 2:31

The king answered him: “Do as he has said. Strike him down and bury him, and remove from me and from my father’s house the blood which Joab shed without provocation.

Ezekiel 16:5

No eye looked on you with pity or compassion to do any of these things for you. Rather, on the day you were born you were left out in the field, rejected.

Leviticus 24:17

Whoever takes the life of any human being shall be put to death;

Leviticus 24:21

Whoever takes the life of an animal shall make restitution, but whoever takes a human life shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:31

You will not accept compensation in place of the life of a murderer who deserves to die, but that person must be put to death.

Deuteronomy 13:8

any of the gods of the surrounding peoples, near to you or far away, from one end of the earth to the other:

Deuteronomy 19:12

the elders of the killer’s own city shall send and have the killer taken from there, to be handed over to the avenger of blood and slain.

Deuteronomy 19:21

Do not show pity. Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot!

Deuteronomy 21:9

and you shall purge the innocent blood from your midst, and do what is right in the eyes of the Lord. Marriage with a Female Captive.

Deuteronomy 25:12

you shall chop off her hand; show no pity.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You shall consume all the peoples which the Lord, your God, is giving over to you. You are not to look on them with pity, nor 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, you shall put them under the ban. Make no covenant with them and do not be gracious to them.