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Proverbs 6:17
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
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Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts[ are] thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction[ are] in their paths.
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Matthew 27:4-5
Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What[ is that] to us? see thou[ to that].And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
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Numbers 35:33
So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye[ are]: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.
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Jonah 1:14
Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee, let us not perish for this man’s life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
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Deuteronomy 19:13
Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shalt put away[ the guilt of] innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.
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Deuteronomy 21:1-9
If[ one] be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it, lying in the field,[ and] it be not known who hath slain him:Then thy elders and thy judges shall come forth, and they shall measure unto the cities which[ are] round about him that is slain:And it shall be,[ that] the city[ which is] next unto the slain man, even the elders of that city shall take an heifer, which hath not been wrought with,[ and] which hath not drawn in the yoke;And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be[ tried]:And all the elders of that city,[ that are] next unto the slain[ man], shall wash their hands over the heifer that is beheaded in the valley:And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen[ it].Be merciful, O LORD, unto thy people Israel, whom thou hast redeemed, and lay not innocent blood unto thy people of Israel’s charge. And the blood shall be forgiven them.So shalt thou put away the[ guilt of] innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do[ that which is] right in the sight of the LORD.
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1 Kings 2 31
And the king said unto him, Do as he hath said, and fall upon him, and bury him; that thou mayest take away the innocent blood, which Joab shed, from me, and from the house of my father.
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Jeremiah 7:6-7
[ If] ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.
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Joel 3:19
Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence[ against] the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
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2 Kings 21 16
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem from one end to another; beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin, in doing[ that which was] evil in the sight of the LORD.
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2 Kings 24 4
And also for the innocent blood that he shed: for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; which the LORD would not pardon.
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Psalms 94:21
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.