Deuteronomy 21:9
So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD.
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Gill's Exposition
So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you,.... Which otherwise, the person not being found out, and brought to just punishment for it, would devolve upon the whole. Aben Ezra…
Care had been taken by some preceding laws for the vigorous and effectual persecution of a wilful murderer (Deu 19:11 etc.), the putting of whom to death was the putting away of the guilt of blood…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
So shalt thou put away Heb. and thou, thou shalt put away, an emphatic variation of the formula with which D usually closes similar laws (see Deu 13:5, (6), Deu 19:13, etc.), as if he only now resumed…
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