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Numbers 35:31

Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.
Numbers 35:31 · King James Version

In other versions

  • Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

    ASV

  • Further, no price may be given for the life of one who has taken life and whose right reward is death: he is certainly to be put to death.

    BBE

  • And ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall certainly be put to death.

    DBY

  • Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.

    WEB

  • `And ye take no atonement for the life of a murderer who `is' condemned -- to die, for he is certainly put to death;

    YLT

  • Moreover all of you shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

    ENG

  • Moreover, ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

    WBT

  • You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.

    BSB

In context

29So these things shall be for a statute of judgment unto you throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

30Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.

31Moreover ye shall take no satisfaction for the life of a murderer, which is guilty of death: but he shall be surely put to death.

32And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that is fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

33So ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are: for blood it defileth the land: and the land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

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