Thematic Bible: For capital offences


Thematic Bible




But if a man willfully attacks his neighbor to kill him cunningly, you will take him even from my altar that he may die.


Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out wickedness from among you, and all Israel will hear about it and be afraid.


The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict -- that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.

In six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the Lord. Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.

But if the ox had the habit of goring, and its owner was warned, and he did not take the necessary precautions, and then it killed a man or a woman, the ox must be stoned and the man must be put to death.

Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.


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