Deuteronomy 4:5
4:5 Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the
Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in
1 the land you are about to enter and possess.
Deuteronomy 19:10
19:10 You must not shed innocent blood
2 in your land that the
Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.
3
Deuteronomy 21:8
21:8 Do not blame
4 your people Israel whom you redeemed, O
Lord, and do not hold them accountable for the bloodshed of an innocent person.”
5 Then atonement will be made for the bloodshed.
Deuteronomy 29:16
The Results of Disobedience
29:16 “(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.
1 tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).
2 tn Heb “innocent blood must not be shed.” The Hebrew phrase דָּם נָקִי (dam naqiy) 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).
3 tn Heb “and blood will be upon you” (cf. KJV, ASV); NRSV “thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.”
3 tn Heb “Atone for.”
4 tn Heb “and do not place innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel.”