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Deuteronomy 19:10
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Deuteronomy 19:10
New English Translation
10 You must not shed innocent blood[a] in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.[b]
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- Deuteronomy 19:10 tn Heb “innocent blood must not be shed.” The Hebrew phrase דָּם נָקִי (dam naqi) means the blood of a person to whom no culpability or responsibility adheres because what he did was without malice aforethought (HALOT 224 s.v דָּם 4.b).
- Deuteronomy 19:10 tn Heb “and blood will be upon you” (cf. KJV, ASV); NRSV “thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.”
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