DEUTERONOMY 21:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 1
“But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.”
His body shall not remain all night upon the pole; instead you shall bury him that same day, for anyone hung on a pole is under God's curse; you must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess — the prohibition of leaving the corpse exposed overnight recognizes that the land itself is God's possession; defiling the land through extended exposure of the cursed dead violates the land's covenantal status.
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