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23 his corpse shall not remain on the tree overnight.(A) You must bury it the same day; anyone who is hanged is a curse of God.[a] You shall not defile the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you as a heritage.

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Footnotes

  1. 21:23 Gal 3:13 applies these words to the crucifixion of Jesus, who “redeemed us from the curse of the law, becoming a curse for us.”

For what the law, weakened by the flesh, was powerless to do, this God has done: by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for the sake of sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,(A)

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21 [a]For our sake he made him to be sin who did not know sin,(A) so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:21 This is a statement of God’s purpose, expressed paradoxically in terms of sharing and exchange of attributes. As Christ became our righteousness (1 Cor 1:30), we become God’s righteousness (cf. 2 Cor 5:14–15).