13Show him no pity. You must purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.


In Context

10 Do this so that innocent blood will not be shed in your land, which the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.

11 But if a man hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him, assaults and kills him, and then flees to one of these cities,

12 the elders of his town shall send for him, bring him back from the city, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.

13 Show him no pity. You must purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.

14 Do not move your neighbor's boundary stone set up by your predecessors in the inheritance you receive in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess.

15 One witness is not enough to convict a man accused of any crime or offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

Deuteronomy 19:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:13Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away [the guilt of] innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

19:13Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:13Thine eye shall not spare him; and thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, that it may be well with thee.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

19:13Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:13Thy eye shall not pity him, but thou shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may be well with thee.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

19:13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

19:13thine eye hath no pity on him, and thou hast put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it is well with thee.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

19:13Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.