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21 Then all the people of the city will stone him to death. You must expel the wicked from your own community.[a] Everyone else in Israel will hear about it and fear the consequences of such rebellion.

22 If someone does something so wicked that it’s punishable by death, and if you execute that person and then hang the body on a pole, 23 don’t leave the body up there overnight. Bury it that same day because everyone who hangs is cursed by God.[b] Otherwise you will defile the ground the Eternal your God is giving you to live on.

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