Deuteronomy 19:13
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New International Version (©2011)
Show no pity. You must purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Do not feel sorry for that murderer! Purge from Israel the guilt of murdering innocent people; then all will go well with you.

English Standard Version (©2001)
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.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, that it may go well with you.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
You must not look on him with pity but purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and you will prosper."

International Standard Version (©2012)
Have no pity on him, but totally purge the shedding of innocent blood from Israel so that life may go well with you."

NET Bible (©2006)
You must not pity him, but purge out the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They must have no pity on him. The guilt of murdering an innocent person must be removed from Israel. Then things will go well for Israel.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

American King James Version
Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Thy eye shall not pity him, but thou shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, that it may be well with thee.

World English Bible
Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with you.

Young's Literal Translation
thine eye hath no pity on him, and thou hast put away the innocent blood from Israel, and it is well with thee.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

19:1-13 Here is the law settled between the blood of the murdered, and the blood of the murderer; provision is made, that the cities of refuge should be a protection, so that a man should not die for that as a crime, which was not his willing act. In Christ, the Lord our Righteousness, refuge is provided for those who by faith flee unto him. But there is no refuge in Jesus Christ for presumptuous sinners, who go on still in their trespasses. Those who flee to Christ from their sins, shall be safe in him, but not those who expect to be sheltered by him in their sins.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Thine eye shall not pity him,.... This is not said to the avenger of blood, who is not to be supposed to have any pity or compassion on such a person, but to the elders, judges, and civil magistrates of the city to which he belonged, who took cognizance of his case; these were to show him no favour on account of his being a citizen, a neighbour, a relation or friend, or a rich man, or on any account whatever; but without favour or affection were to judge him and put him to death as a murderer; see Numbers 35:21,

but thou shall put away the guilt of innocent blood from Israel; by which they would be defiled, and be liable to punishment for it; see Numbers 35:33, the Targum of Jonathan is,"shall put away those that shed innocent blood out of Israel;''put them away by death:

that it may go well with thee; with the whole land and its inhabitants, and with the city particularly, and the magistrates, and men of it, to which the murderer condemned to death belonged, being continued in the enjoyment of all temporal blessings and mercies.

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Cities of Refuge
…12Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 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. 14You shall not remove your neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set in your inheritance, which you shall inherit in the land that the LORD your God gives you to possess it.

Deuteronomy 7:2 and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy.
Deuteronomy 19:12 the killer shall be sent for by the town elders, be brought back from the city, and be handed over to the avenger of blood to die.
Deuteronomy 19:21 Show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Deuteronomy 21:9 and you will have purged from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
Deuteronomy 25:12 you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.
2 Samuel 14:7 Now the whole clan has risen up against your servant; they say, 'Hand over the one who struck his brother down, so that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed; then we will get rid of the heir as well.' They would put out the only burning coal I have left, leaving my husband neither name nor descendant on the face of the earth."
1 Kings 2:31 Then the king commanded Benaiah, "Do as he says. Strike him down and bury him, and so clear me and my whole family of the guilt of the innocent blood that Joab shed.