¹⁰ Do this so that innocent blood^(A) will not be shed in your land, which the Lord your God is giving you as your inheritance, and so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.^(B)

⁴ “I have sinned,” he said, “for I have betrayed innocent blood.”

“What is that to us?” they replied. “That’s your responsibility.”^(A)

⁵ So Judas threw the money into the temple^(B) and left. Then he went away and hanged himself.^(C)

¹⁴ Then they cried out to the Lord, “Please, Lord, do not let us die for taking this man’s life. Do not hold us accountable for killing an innocent man,^(A) for you, Lord, have done as you pleased.”^(B)

⁶ if you do not oppress^(A) the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow and do not shed innocent blood^(B) in this place, and if you do not follow other gods^(C) to your own harm, ⁷ then I will let you live in this place, in the land^(D) I gave your ancestors^(E) for ever and ever.

⁴ including the shedding of innocent blood.^(A) For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.^(B)

¹⁶ Moreover, Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood^(A) that he filled Jerusalem from end to end—besides the sin that he had caused Judah^(B) to commit, so that they did evil in the eyes of the Lord.