Thematic Bible: For capital offences


Thematic Bible




If a man acts deliberately against his neighbor, to kill him by treachery, you are to take him to die even if he's at my altar.


Then all the men of his city are to stone him with boulders so that he dies. This is how you will remove this evil from among you. Then all Israel will hear of it and will be afraid."


If a man presumptuously disregards the priest who is serving the LORD your God there or the judge, that person must die so you will purge evil from Israel.

For six days work is to be done, but on the seventh day you are to have a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest in dedication to the LORD. Anyone who does work on that day is to be executed.

But if the ox has gored previously, and its owner has been warned about it but didn't restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, the ox is to be stoned and its owner also is to be put to death.

But you must surely execute him. You must be the first to put him to death with your own hand, and then the hands of the whole community.


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