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Deuteronomy 21:20-22
New Catholic Bible
Deuteronomy 21:20-22
New Catholic Bible
20 They are to say to the town elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not listen to us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” 21 Then all the men of that town will stone him to death. You must purge the evil from your midst. All of Israel will hear of it and be filled with fear.
22 Burying a Criminal.[a] If a man guilty of a capital offense is put to death and his body is hanging from a tree,
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- Deuteronomy 21:22 This is why the body of Jesus was buried before nightfall (Jn 19:31). See the application of the entire passage to Jesus in Gal 3:13.
