DEUTERONOMY 21:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:”
If someone is guilty of a crime punishable by death and is put to death, and you hang the body on a pole — the hanging of an executed criminal (toleh otah al etz) serves to display the condemned; the visible corpse reinforces the seriousness of the transgression.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a note on this verse
0/2000
No notes on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!