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

⁸ Lord, forgive Your people Israel You redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.’ Then they will be absolved of responsibility for bloodshed. 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. Consequently, 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 would not forgive.

³ This is what the Lord says: Administer justice and righteousness.^(A) Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor.^(B) Don’t exploit or brutalize the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. 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!”