Psalms 140:11 Halakhah: Shulchan Arukh, Yoreh De'ah

[In] a locality where it is customary to bury [the dead first] in depressions, (i.e., deep pits, — derived from, 'into deep pits that they rise not up again',)¹⁹Ps. CXL, 11. Cf. Ibn Ezra, Me’iri (ed. Mekiẓe Nirdamim, Jerusalem 1936) and Meẓudath David a.l. infra § 403, n. 1. without a coffin, until the flesh is decomposed, and afterwards one collects the bones and buries them in a coffin, it is permitted.²⁰ supra § 362, n. 3. One must be careful not to mix bones of two corpses. infra § 403, 8.