^23 (A)his body shall not remain overnight on the tree, but you shall surely bury him that day, so that ^(B)you do not defile the land which the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance; for ^(C)he who is hanged is accursed of God.

¹⁴ “They will set apart men regularly employed, with the help of ^[a]a search party, to pass through the land and bury those bodies remaining on the ground, in order ^(A)to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make a search.

¹⁶ The name of the city will also be ^[a]Hamonah. Thus they shall ^(A)cleanse the land.” ’