'Body' in the Bible

then let your elders and judges go out and measure the distance from the dead body to the neighboring cities.

Then the elders of the city nearest the body are to take a heifer that hasn't been put to work or hasn't pulled a yoke

All the elders of the city nearest the dead body are to wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley,

his body must not remain overnight on the tree. You must bury him that same day, because cursed of God is the one who has been hanged on a tree. Don't defile your land that the LORD is about to give you as your inheritance."