10 In this way, innocent blood will not be shed, and you will not become guilty of bloodshed in the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.(A)

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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)

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25 ‘The one who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person is cursed.’

And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

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25 “Cursed is anyone who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.”(A)

Then all the people shall say, “Amen!”

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He sacrificed his son in the fire,[a](A) practiced witchcraft and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists.(B) He did a huge amount of evil in the Lord’s sight, angering him.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 21:6 Lit He made his son pass through the fire

He sacrificed his own son(A) in the fire, practiced divination,(B) sought omens, and consulted mediums and spiritists.(C) He did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, arousing(D) his anger.

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16 Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem with it from one end to another.(A) This was in addition to his sin that he caused Judah to commit, so that they did what was evil in the Lord’s sight.

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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.

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and also because of all the innocent blood he had shed. He had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood,(A) and the Lord was not willing to forgive.

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

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Their feet run after evil,(A)
and they rush to shed innocent blood.(B)
Their thoughts are sinful thoughts;(C)
ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.

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Their feet rush into sin;
    they are swift to shed innocent blood.(A)
They pursue evil schemes;(B)
    acts of violence mark their ways.(C)

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34 Moreover, your skirts are stained
with the blood of the innocent poor.(A)
You did not catch them breaking and entering.(B)
But in spite of all these things

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34 On your clothes is found
    the lifeblood(A) of the innocent poor,
    though you did not catch them breaking in.(B)
Yet in spite of all this

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