Discovery BoxDeuteronomy 21:22 
ContextDisposition of a Criminal’s Remains
21:22 If a person commits a sin punishable by death and is executed, and you hang the corpse 1 on a tree,
Deuteronomy 24:12
Context24:12 If the person is poor you may not use what he gives you as security for a covering. 2
Deuteronomy 27:18
Context27:18 ‘Cursed is the one who misleads a blind person on the road.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
Deuteronomy 27:25
Context27:25 ‘Cursed is the one who takes a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’
1 tn Heb “him.”
2 tn Heb “may not lie down in his pledge.” What is in view is the use of clothing as guarantee for the repayment of loans, a matter already addressed elsewhere (Deut 23:19-20; 24:6; cf. Exod 22:25-26; Lev 25:35-37). Cf. NAB “you shall not sleep in the mantle he gives as a pledge”; NRSV “in the garment given you as the pledge.”
