Deuteronomy 19:10

You must not shed innocent blood ¹  in your land that the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, for that would make you guilty. ² 

De 19:13; De 21:8; 1Ki 2:31; 2Ki 21:16; 2Ki 24:4; Ps 94:21; Pr 6:17; Isa 59:7; Jer 7:6,7; Joe 3:19; Jon 1:14; Mt 27:4,5

¹ 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).

² tn Heb “and blood will be upon you” (cf. KJV, ASV); NRSV “thereby bringing bloodguilt upon you.”