Deuteronomy 21:8-10

Common English Bible

⁸ Lord, please forgive your people Israel, whom you saved. Don’t put the guilt of innocent bloodshed on your people Israel.”

Then the bloodguilt will be forgiven them.

⁹ But you must remove^[a] innocent bloodshed from your community; do only what is right in the Lord’s eyes.

Foreign wives

¹⁰ When you wage war against your enemies and the Lord hands them over to you and you take prisoners,