OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 19:13

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Your eye shall not pity him, but you shall purge the innocent blood from Israel that it may go well with you.

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Verse 13. Innocent. Many Latin copies have “guilty blood,” noxium. By putting the offender to death, Israel was expiated from the blood which had been shed unjustly. Calmet.

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