Thematic Bible: For capital offences


Thematic Bible




If a man schemes and kills a man deliberately remove him from my altar and put him to death.


All the men of his city shall stone him to death. In that way you will remove the evil from your midst. All Israel will hear about it and fear.


The man who acts presumptuously and does not listen to the priest or the judge will die. This way you will purge the evil from Israel. The priests and judges are there to serve Jehovah your God.

You may work for six days. The seventh day is a holy day of worship (a Sabbath). It is a day when you do not work. It is dedicated to Jehovah. Whoever does any work on this day should be put to death.

If an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death.

You must kill him! Your hand should be first against him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.