THEOSISDeuteronomy 19:10Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
That innocent blood may not be shed in the midst of the land which the Lord thy God will give thee to possess, lest thou be guilty of blood.
וְלֹ֤א יִשָּׁפֵךְ֙ דָּ֣ם נָקִ֔י בְּקֶ֣רֶב אַרְצְךָ֔ אֲשֶׁר֙ יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ נֹתֵ֥ן לְךָ֖ נַחֲלָ֑ה וְהָיָ֥ה עָלֶ֖יךָ דָּמִֽים׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 6:17Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
- Isa 59:7Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in their ways.
- Matt 27:4Saying: I have sinned in betraying innocent blood. But they said: What is that to us? Look thou to it.
- Matt 27:5And casting down the pieces of silver in the temple, he departed and went and hanged himself with an halter.
- Joel 3:19Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a wilderness destroyed: because they have done unjustly against the children of Juda, and have shed innocent blood in their land.
- Jer 7:6If you oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, and walk not after strange gods to your own hurt,
- Jer 7:7I will dwell with you in this place: in the land, which I gave to your fathers from the beginning and for evermore.
- Deut 19:13Thou shalt not pity him, and thou shalt take away the guilt of innocent blood out of Israel, that it may be well with thee.