Deu 19:10-13 | ESV | STEP | lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance , and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

a ch. 27:24; Ex. 21:12, 14; See Num. 35:16-21

Deuteronomy 19:10-13

10 lest innocent blood be shed in your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance, and so the guilt of bloodshed be upon you.

11 “But if anyone hates his neighbor and lies in wait for him and attacks him ^aand strikes him fatally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities, 12 then the elders of his city shall send and take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood, so that he may die. 13 ^bYour eye shall not pity him, ^cbut you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood ^{▼▼Or the blood of the innocent} from Israel, so that it may be well with you.