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16 You shall consume all the peoples which the Lord, your God, is giving over to you. You are not to look on them with pity, nor serve their gods, for that would be a snare to you.(A)

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16 You must destroy all the peoples the Lord your God gives over to you.(A) Do not look on them with pity(B) and do not serve their gods,(C) for that will be a snare(D) to you.

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13 Do not show pity, but purge from Israel the innocent blood, so that it may go well with you.(A)

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13 Show no pity.(A) You must purge from Israel the guilt of shedding innocent blood,(B) so that it may go well with you.

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21 Do not show pity. Life for life,[a] eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot!(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 19:21 Life for life…: this phrasing of the lex talionis may seem exaggerated, but the law itself is meant to ensure equity and proportional punishment; cf. note on Ex 21:22–25.

21 Show no pity:(A) life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.(B)

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12 you shall chop off her hand; show no pity.

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12 you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity.(A)

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