Deuteronomy 21:23

23 bhis body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for ca hanged man is cursed by God. You shall not ddefile your land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance.

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Galatians 3:13
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”—

Leviticus 18:25
and the land became unclean, so that I punished its iniquity, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.

Numbers 35:34
You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, for I the LORD dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”

Jeremiah 2:7
And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.

Ezekiel 36:17
“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their deeds. Their ways before me were like the uncleanness of a woman in her menstrual impurity.


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ch. 21:5; [Isa. 15:2; Jer. 9:26; 48:37]