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A bare tree trunk and spreading branches rise against an open sky.
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Deuteronomy 21:22

The Tree after a Death Sentence

Answer for Innocent Blood and Guard the Household Laws · Deuteronomy 21

Story guide: The bare tree accompanies the law concerning a man put to death and then hung on a tree.

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22And if in a man there is a sin deserving death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

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