Deuteronomy 19:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Show no pity; you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

Cross References

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 14:7

Now the whole family has risen against your servant. They say, ‘Give up the man who struck his brother, so that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he murdered, even if we destroy the heir as well.’ Thus they would quench my one remaining ember and leave to my husband neither name nor remnant on 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 inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

2 Samuel 21:14

They buried the bones of Saul and of his son Jonathan in the land of Benjamin in Zela, in the tomb of his father Kish; they did all that the king commanded. 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 that Joab shed without cause.

Ezekiel 16:5

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

Leviticus 24:17

Anyone who kills a human being shall be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

One who kills an animal shall make restitution for it, but one who kills a human being shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:31

Moreover you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer who is subject to the death penalty; a murderer must be put to death.

Deuteronomy 13:8

you must not yield to or heed any such persons. Show them no pity or compassion, and do not shield them.

Deuteronomy 19:12

then the elders of the killer’s city shall send to have the culprit taken from there and handed over to the avenger of blood to be put to death.

Deuteronomy 19:21

Show no pity: 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, because you must do what is right in the sight of the Lord.

Deuteronomy 25:12

you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.

Deuteronomy 7:16

You shall devour all the peoples that the Lord your God is giving over to you, showing them no pity; you shall not 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. Make no covenant with them and show them no mercy.