Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

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

New American Standard Bible

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 Version

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 Bible

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

Have no pity on him, but totally purge the shedding of innocent blood from Israel so that life may go well with you."

A Conservative Version

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

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.

Amplified

You shall not pity him [the guilty one], but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, so that it may go well with you.

Bible in Basic English

Have no pity on him, so that Israel may be clear from the crime of putting a man to death without cause, and it will be well for you.

Julia Smith Translation

Thine eye shall not pity him and put away innocent blood from Israel, and it was well to thee.

King James 2000

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.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Your eye shall not take pity on him, and you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, {so that good will be directed toward you}.

Modern King James verseion

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

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Let thine eye have no pity on him, and so thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, and happy art thou.

NET Bible

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

New Heart 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.

The Emphasized Bible

thine eye shall not look with pity upon him, - so shall thou consume the shedding of innocent blood out of Israel and it shah go well with thee.

Webster

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.

Youngs 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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
shall not pity
חוּס 
Chuwc 
Usage: 24

him, but thou shalt put away
בּער 
Ba`ar 
Usage: 94

the guilt of innocent
נקיא נקי 
Naqiy 
Usage: 43

דּם 
Dam 
Usage: 359

ישׂראל 
Yisra'el 
Usage: 2505

that it may go well
טוב 
Towb 
Usage: 31

References

Context Readings

Detailed Stipulations: Purity And Unity

12 then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. 13 Thine eye shall not spare him; and thou shalt put away innocent blood from Israel, that it may be well with thee. 14 Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have fixed in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess.



Cross References

1 Kings 2:31

And the king said to him, Do as he has said, and fall upon him, and bury him; and take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me and from the house of my father.

Deuteronomy 7:2

and when Jehovah thy God shall give them up before thee and thou shalt smite them, then shalt thou utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them.

Deuteronomy 7:16

And thou shalt consume all the peoples that Jehovah thy God will give up unto thee; thine eye shall not spare them, and thou shalt not serve their gods; for that would be a snare unto thee.

Deuteronomy 21:9

So shalt thou put away innocent blood from thy midst, when thou shalt do what is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 25:12

thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not spare.

Genesis 9:6

Whoso sheddeth Man's blood, by Man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God he hath made Man.

Leviticus 24:17

And if any one smiteth any man mortally, he shall certainly be put to death.

Leviticus 24:21

He that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good; and he that smiteth a man mortally shall be put to death.

Numbers 35:33-34

And ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and there can be no atonement made for the land, for the blood that hath been shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

Deuteronomy 13:8

thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye spare him, neither shalt thou pity him, neither shalt thou screen him,

2 Samuel 21:1

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired of Jehovah. And Jehovah said, It is for Saul, and for his house of blood, because he slew the Gibeonites.

2 Samuel 21:14

And they buried them with the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son in the country of Benjamin in Zela, in the sepulchre of Kish his father; and they did all that the king had commanded. And afterwards God was propitious to the land.

Ezekiel 16:5

No eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, from abhorrence of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

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