22“Now if 21:22 Lit a sin is in a person carryinga person has committed a sin carrying a sentence of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on 21:22 Lit wooda tree,
22“And if a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death and [21:22 In the time of the Roman Empire, the rabbis insisted that the Jews were more humane than the Romans because Jews did not use crucifixion as a means of execution. They maintained that only the corpse was hanged.afterward] you hang him on a tree [as a public example], [Josh 10:26, 27]
22If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,21:22 Or impale his body on a pole; similarly in verse 23