Deuteronomy 21:22-23
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Summary
- When a person is put to death by hanging, don't leave the body unburied overnight. Doing this defiles the land.
Details and/or Comments
Scripture
Deuteronomy 21:22-23
CONTEXT: Various regulations about dealing with homicides, treatment of other people, conduct that receives the death penalty, etc.
- Here is a passage that speaks about an activity which would defile the land.
| Scripture Passage | Comments and Links |
| Deu 21:22 If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree;
Deu 21:23 his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don't defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance. |
Don't leave a body hanging overnight.
Defiled, perhaps because of the decomposition, but probably also ceremonially defiled. |
Ch. 2 & 3 (selected) • 5:1-33 • 6:1-25 • 7:1-26 • 8:1-20 • 9:1-29 • 11:1-28 • 13:1-18 • 18:15-22 • 19:14 • 20:1-20 • 21:22-23 • Ch. 22 (selected) • 23:12-14, 19-25 • 24:6, 10-22 • 25:4 • 25:13-16 • 26:1-15 • 28:1-68 • 29:1-29 • 30:1-20 |
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