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Deuteronomy 21:22-23
Christian Standard Bible
Deuteronomy 21:22-23
Christian Standard Bible
Display of Executed People
22 “If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree, 23 you are not to leave his corpse on the tree overnight but are to bury him that day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse.(A) You must not defile the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.(B)
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Deuteronomy 21:22-23
New International Version
Deuteronomy 21:22-23
New International Version
Various Laws
22 If someone guilty of a capital offense(A) is put to death and their body is exposed on a pole, 23 you must not leave the body hanging on the pole overnight.(B) Be sure to bury(C) it that same day, because anyone who is hung on a pole is under God’s curse.(D) You must not desecrate(E) the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.
Deuteronomy 21:22-23
King James Version
Deuteronomy 21:22-23
King James Version
22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree:
23 His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.
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