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Saturday, March 14, 2026

Deuteronomy 19-21 - A Man Hanged on a Tree Is Cursed

Statutes About Cities of Refuge

Deuteronomy 19:10 LSB — “So innocent blood will not be shed in the midst of your land which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance, and bloodguiltiness be on you.

Statutes About Boundaries and Witnesses

Deuteronomy 19:21 LSB — “Thus your eye shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Statutes About Warfare

Deuteronomy 20:4 LSB — for Yahweh your God is the one who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’

Deuteronomy 20:8 LSB — “Then the officers shall speak further to the people and say, ‘Who is the man that is afraid and whose heart is faint? Let him go and return to his house, so that he might not make his brothers’ hearts melt like his heart.’

Atonement for Innocent Blood

Deuteronomy 21:9 LSB — “So you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of Yahweh.

Statutes About Domestic Relations

Deuteronomy 21:17 LSB — “But he shall recognize the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion of all that he has, for he is the first of his vigor; the legal judgment for the firstborn belongs to him.

A Man Hanged on a Tree Is Cursed

Deuteronomy 21:22-23 LSB — “And if a man has committed a sin, the judgment of which is death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his corpse shall not hang all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him on the same day (because cursed of God is he who is hanged), so that you do not make unclean your land which Yahweh your God gives you as an inheritance.


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