Deuteronomy 19:10

19:10 You must not shed innocent blood22 in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty.23

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22	tn Heb “innocent blood must not be shed.” The Hebrew phrase דָּם נָקִי (dam naqiy) means the blood of a person to whom no culpability or responsibility adheres because what he did was without malice aforethought (HALOT 224 s.v. דָּם 4.b).
23	tn Heb “and blood will be upon you” (cf. KJV, ASV); NRSV “thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.”