12 For seven months the house of Israel will be burying them, (A)in order to cleanse the land.

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23 (A)his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that (B)you do not defile the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance; for (C)he who is hanged is accursed of God.

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14 “They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of [a]a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order (A)to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 39:14 Lit. those who pass through

16 The name of the city will also be [a]Hamonah. Thus they shall (A)cleanse the land.” ’

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 39:16 Lit. Multitude

16 (A)Whoever in the open field touches one who is slain by a sword or who has died, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

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