Peculiar to D. Here respect for both parents is enforced (see Exodus 20:12; Exodus 21:15); cf. CH. § 195, The son's hand which has smitten his father shall be cut off (see Deuteronomy 15:12 *).

Deuteronomy 21:22 f. This law (peculiar to D) rests upon the early belief that the soul of a dead person wanders about, often working mischief.

Deuteronomy 21:22. hang: render impale, a common form of punishment in the ancient East. In the present case the criminal would be first stoned, the only Hebrew mode of capital punishment his body being then spiked and exposed as a disgrace and a warning (see Deuteronomy 13:10 *, Galatians 3:13, and Cent.B on Ezra 6:11).

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