World English Bible
Deuteronomy 19:10
“that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 19
If Yahweh your God enlarges your border, as he has sworn to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he promised to give to your fathers;
if you keep all this commandment to do it, which I command you this day, to love Yahweh your God, and to walk ever in his ways; then you shall add three cities more for yourselves, besides these three:
that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance, and so blood be on you.
But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and strikes him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities;
then the elders of his city shall send and bring him there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.
About Deuteronomy
Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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