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.

[4:5]  ¹ tn Heb “in the midst of” (so ASV).

[19:10]  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).

[19:10]  ³ tn Heb “and blood will be upon you” (cf. KJV, ASV); NRSV “thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.”

[21:8]  ³ tn Heb “Atone for.”

[21:8]  ⁴ tn Heb “and do not place innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel.”