9 And you—you will clear away the guilt of innocent blood from your midst,+ because you will do what is right in Jehovah’s eyes.+

16 And there was also innocent blood that Ma·nasʹseh shed+ in very great quantity, until he had filled Jerusalem from end to end,* besides his sin with which he caused Judah to sin by doing what was bad in the eyes of Jehovah.+

17 lofty eyes,+ a false tongue,+ and hands that are shedding innocent blood,+

6 if no alien resident,* no fatherless boy and no widow YOU will oppress,+ and innocent blood YOU will not shed in this place,+ and after other gods* YOU will not walk for calamity to yourselves,+

14 And they proceeded to call out to Jehovah and to say:+ “Ah, now, O Jehovah, may we, please, not perish because of the soul* of this man! And do not put upon us innocent blood,+ since you yourself, O Jehovah, have done according to what you have delighted in!”+

4 saying: “I sinned when I betrayed righteous blood.”+ They said: “What is that to us? You must see to that!”+