◄ Deuteronomy 21:9 ►
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Good News Translation
And so, by doing what the LORD requires, you will not be held responsible for the murder.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

New American Bible
and you shall purge the innocent blood from your midst, and do what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And thou shalt be free from the innocent's blood, that was shed, when thou shalt have done what the Lord hath commanded thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And thou shalt be free from the innocent's blood, that was shed, when thou shalt have done what the Lord hath commanded thee.

shalt thou

Deuteronomy 19:12,13 The ancients of his city shall send, and take him out of the place of refuge, and shall deliver him into the hand of the kinsman of him whose blood was shed, and he shall die. . . .

when thou shalt

Deuteronomy 13:18 When thou shalt hear the voice of the Lord thy God, keeping all his precepts, which I command thee this day, that thou mayst do what is pleasing in the sight of the Lord thy God.

2 Kings 10:20,31 And he said: Proclaim a festival for Baal. And he called, . . .

Context
The Atonement for an Unsolved Murder
…8Be merciful to thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, O Lord, and lay not innocent blood to their charge, in the midst of thy people Israel. And the guilt of blood shall be taken from them: 9And thou shalt be free from the innocent's blood, that was shed, when thou shalt have done what the Lord hath commanded thee.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 19:13
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.

1 Kings 2:31
And the king said to him: Do as he hath said; and kill him, and bury him, and thou shalt remove the innocent blood which hath been shed by Joab, from me, and from the house of my father:

Deuteronomy 21:8
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