¹² Seven months the house of Israel shall spend burying them, in order to cleanse the land.

²³ his corpse must not remain all night upon the tree; you must bury him that same day, for anyone hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the Lord your God is giving you for possession.^(A)

¹⁴ They will set apart men to pass through the land regularly and bury any invaders^[a] who remain on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it; for seven months they shall make their search.^(A)

¹⁶ (A city Hamonah^[a] is there also.) Thus they shall cleanse the land.

¹⁶ Whoever in the open field touches one who has been killed by a sword or who has died naturally,^[a] or a human bone, or a grave shall be unclean seven days.^(A)