Genesis 40:19
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19 In just three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from off you—and hang you on a tree.[a] Then the birds will eat the flesh from your body.”[b]
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- Genesis 40:19 Or and impale you on a pole
- Genesis 40:19 Lit eat your flesh from upon you
Genesis 40:22
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22 But Pharaoh hanged[a] the chief baker, just as Joseph had explained to them.
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- Genesis 40:22 Or impaled
Esther 5:14
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14 His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows 75 feet[a] high.(A) Ask the king in the morning to hang Mordecai on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.(B)
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- Esther 5:14 Lit 50 cubits
Esther 7:9-10
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9 Harbona, one of the royal eunuchs,(A) said: “There is a gallows 75 feet[a] tall at Haman’s house that he made for Mordecai,(B) who gave the report that saved[b] the king.”(C)
The king commanded, “Hang him on it.”
10 They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai.(D) Then the king’s anger subsided.(E)
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- Esther 7:9 Lit 50 cubits
- Esther 7:9 Lit who spoke good for
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