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22 “If someone has committed a crime worthy of death and is executed and hung on a tree,[a] 23 the body must not remain hanging from the tree overnight. You must bury the body that same day, for anyone who is hung[b] is cursed in the sight of God. In this way, you will prevent the defilement of the land the Lord your God is giving you as your special possession.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:22 Or impaled on a pole; similarly in 21:23.
  2. 21:23 Greek version reads for everyone who is hung on a tree. Compare Gal 3:13.

22 “Now if [a]a person has committed a sin carrying (A)a sentence of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on [b]a tree, 23 (B)his body is not to be left overnight on the [c]tree, but you shall certainly bury him on the same day (for (C)he who is hanged is cursed of God), so that you (D)do not defile your land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 21:22 Lit a sin is in a person carrying
  2. Deuteronomy 21:22 Lit wood
  3. Deuteronomy 21:23 Lit wood