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)

¹³ Do not look on him with pity but purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood, and you will prosper.

⁸ Lord, wipe away the guilt of your people Israel whom you redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.’ Then the responsibility for bloodshed will be wiped away from them. ⁹ You must purge from yourselves the guilt of shedding innocent blood, for you will be doing what is right in the Lord’s sight.

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.

⁴ 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.

³ This is what the Lord says: Administer justice and righteousness.^(A) Rescue the victim of robbery from his oppressor.^(B) Don’t exploit or brutalize the resident alien, the fatherless, or the widow.^(C) Don’t shed innocent blood in this place.

¹⁵ But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood^(A) on yourselves, on this city, and on its residents, for it is certain the Lord has sent me to speak all these things directly to you.”

⁴ “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood,” he said.

“What’s that to us?” they said. “See to it yourself!”