Deuteronomy 21:22
Good News Translation
"If someone has been put to death for a crime and the body is hung on a post,

New Revised Standard Version
When someone is convicted of a crime punishable by death and is executed, and you hang him on a tree,

Contemporary English Version
If a criminal is put to death, and you hang the dead body on a tree,

New American Bible
If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and you hang him on a tree,

Douay-Rheims Bible
When a man hath committed a crime for which he is to be punished with death, and being condemned to die is hanged on a gibbet:

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When a man hath committed a crime for which he is to be punished with death, and being condemned to die is hanged on a gibbet:

2 Samuel 4:12 And David commanded his servants and they slew them: and cutting off their hands and feet, hanged them up over the pool in Hebron: but the head of Isboseth they took and buried in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.

Joshua 8:29 And he hung the king thereof on a gibbet, until the evening and the going down of the sun. Then Joshua commanded, and they took down his carcass from the gibbet: and threw it in the very entrance of the city, heaping upon it a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this present day.

Joshua 10:26 And Joshua struck, and slew them, and hanged them upon five gibbets; and they hung until the evening.

Numbers 25:4 Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them up on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from Israel.

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Numbers 25:4 Said to Moses: Take all the princes of the people, and hang them up on gibbets against the sun: that my fury may be turned away from Israel.

we read, `And the Lord said unto Moses, take all the heads (chief men) of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.' Among the Romans, in after ages, they hanged, or rather fastened to the tree ALIVE; and such was the cruel death of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

Deuteronomy 19:6 Lest perhaps the next kinsman of him whose blood was shed, pushed on by his grief should pursue, and apprehend him, if the way be too long, and take away the life of him who is not guilty of death, because he is proved to have had no hatred before against him that was slain.

Deuteronomy 22:26 The damsel shall suffer nothing, neither is she guilty of death: for as a robber riseth against his brother, and taketh away his life, so also did the damsel suffer:

1 Samuel 26:16 This thing is not good, that thou hast done: as the Lord liveth, you are the sons of death, who have not kept your master, the Lord's anointed. And now where is the king's spear, and the cup of water, which was at his head?

Matthew 26:66 What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death.

Acts 23:29 Whom I found to be accused concerning questions of their law; but having nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bands.

Acts 25:11,25 For if I have injured them or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die. But if there be none of these things whereof they accuse me, no man may deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar. . . .

Acts 26:31 And when they were gone aside, they spoke among themselves, saying: This man hath done nothing worthy of death or of bands.

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2 Samuel 21:6,9 Let seven men of his children be delivered unto us, that we may crucify them to the Lord in Gabaa of Saul, once the chosen of the Lord. And the king said: I will give them. . . .

Luke 23:33 And when they were come to the place which is called Calvary, they crucified him there: and the robbers, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.

John 19:31-38 Then the Jews (because it was the parasceve), that the bodies might not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day (for that was a great sabbath day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken: and that they might be taken away. . . .

Context
Cursed is Anyone Hung on a Tree
22When a man hath committed a crime for which he is to be punished with death, and being condemned to die is hanged on a gibbet:23His body shall not remain upon the tree, but shall be buried the same day: for he is accursed of God that hangeth on a tree: and thou shalt not defile thy land, which the Lord thy God shall give thee in possession.…
Cross References
Matthew 26:66
What think you? But they answering, said: He is guilty of death.

Mark 14:64
You have heard the blasphemy. What think you? Who all condemned him to be guilty of death.

Acts 23:29
Whom I found to be accused concerning questions of their law; but having nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bands.

Deuteronomy 22:26
The damsel shall suffer nothing, neither is she guilty of death: for as a robber riseth against his brother, and taketh away his life, so also did the damsel suffer:

Joshua 8:29
And he hung the king thereof on a gibbet, until the evening and the going down of the sun. Then Joshua commanded, and they took down his carcass from the gibbet: and threw it in the very entrance of the city, heaping upon it a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this present day.

Joshua 10:27
And when the sun was down, he commanded the soldiers to take them down from the gibbets. And after they were taken down, they cast them into the cave, where they had lain hid, and put great stones at the mouth thereof, which remain until this day.

Deuteronomy 21:21
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