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Primary Verses:
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Deuteronomy 21:22-23
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"And if a man have committed a
sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and
thou hang him on a tree:
His body shall not remain all night upon the
tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day;
(for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy
land be not defiled, which YHVH thy God giveth thee for
an inheritance."
Supporting Verses:
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Joshua 8:29
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"And the king of Ai he hanged on
a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down,
Joshua commanded that
they should take his carcase down from the tree,
and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and
raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth
unto this day."
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Joshua 10:26-27
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"And afterward Joshua smote
them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and
they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the
sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off
the trees, and cast them into the cave
wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the
cave's mouth, which remain until this very day."
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John 19:31
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"The Jews therefore, because it
was the preparation,
that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the
sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was
an high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be
broken, and that they might be taken away."
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