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Deuteronomy 21:23 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" 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. Don’t defile your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance. "

Deuteronomy 21:23

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21 All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.

22 If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

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. Don’t defile your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

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Deuteronomy 21:1

"If someone is found slain in the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess, lying in the field, and it isn’t known who has struck him,"

Deuteronomy 21:2

"then your elders and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain."

Deuteronomy 21:3

"It shall be that the elders of the city which is nearest to the slain man shall take a heifer of the herd, which hasn’t been worked with and which has not drawn in the yoke."

Deuteronomy 21:4

"The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley."

Deuteronomy 21:5

"The priests the sons of Levi shall come near, for them the LORD your God has chosen to minister to him, and to bless in the LORD’s name; and according to their word shall every controversy and every assault be decided."

Deuteronomy 21:6

"All the elders of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley."

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