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Deuteronomy 21:22

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If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

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Verse 22. Gibbet. Whether the person was first killed, as the Jews assert, or he was left to die upon the gibbet, see Calmet’s Diss. It is also a matter of doubt, whether he was nailed to the gibbet, or hung on it by a rope. Bonfrere.

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