"Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen."
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If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord GOD.
They build up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquity.
The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.
And said unto them, What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for thirty pieces of silver.
Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out.
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.
He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
Cursed is he who for a reward puts to death one who has done no wrong. And let all the people say, So be it.
Cursed be he that taketh reward to smite mortally [shedding] innocent blood! And all the people shall say, Amen.
Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person: and all the people shall say, Amen.
Cursed be he who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person. All the people shall say, Amen.
`Cursed `is' he who is taking a bribe to smite a person, innocent blood, -- and all the people have said, Amen.