Deuteronomy 21:22

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

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WEBBE

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

BSB

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

KJV

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:

ASV

And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree;

BBE

If a man does a crime for which the punishment is death, and he is put to death by hanging him on a tree;

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וְכִי־ ve·khi- and if H3588 יִהְיֶה yih·yeh it will be H1961 בְאִישׁ ve·'ish in anyone H376 חֵטְא chet' a sin of H2399 מִשְׁפַּט־ mish·pat- a sentence of H4941 מָוֶת ma·vet death H4194 וְהוּמָת ve·hu·mat and he will be put to death H4191 וְתָלִיתָ ve·ta·li·ta and you will hang H8518 אֹתוֹ 'o·to (marks the object) him H853 עַל־ 'al- on H5921 עֵץ 'etz a tree H6086

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 22–23

By the law of Moses, the touch of a dead body was defiling, therefore dead bodies must not be left hanging, as that would defile the land. There is one reason here which has reference to Christ; "He that is hanged is accursed of God;" that is, it is the highest degree of disgrace and reproach. Those who see a man thus hanging between heaven and earth, will conclude him abandoned of both, and unworthy of either. Moses, by the Spirit, uses this phrase of being accursed of God, when he means no more than being treated most disgracefully, that it might afterward be applied to the death of Christ, and might show that in it he underwent the curse of the law for us; which proves his love, and encourages to faith in him.

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