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Moses pleaded that they should be spared "And yhwh renounced the punishment planned for God’s people." (Exodus 32:11–14) Moses went down from the mountain; upon seeing the calf, he became angry and threw down the two Tablets of Stone, breaking them. Moses burnt the golden calf in a fire, ground it to powder, scattered it on water, and ...
God tells Moses what the people have done, saying he will destroy them. Moses implores God not to do so, calling on God to remember his oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and God renounces the planned punishment. Moses goes down the mountain bearing the two tablets, and becomes enraged and shatters the tablets.
The Punishment of Korah (detail from the fresco Punishment of the Rebels by Sandro Botticelli (1480–1482) in the Sistine Chapel). Korach or Korah (Hebrew: קֹרַח Qoraḥ—the name "Korah," which in turn means baldness, ice, hail, or frost, the second word, and the first distinctive word, in the parashah) is the 38th weekly Torah portion (פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual ...
One man picked up sticks on the Sabbath, he was taken into custody because a punishment was not known. The L ORD told Moses that the man in custody must be killed. This particular crime and punishment is isolated case law.(Numbers 15:32–36) The man and woman when a man meets a betrothed woman in town and sleeps with her.
Moses told the Israelites that they were not worthy to inherit the land, and would wander the wilderness for forty years until the generation who had refused to enter Canaan had died, so that it would be their children who would possess the land. [52] Later on, Korah was punished for leading a revolt against Moses.
According to one legend preserved in the Babylonian Talmud, Ham broke a prohibition on sex aboard the ark and "was smitten in his skin" as punishment; [51] However, in the Talmud this skin punishment is not described as hereditary or linked to slavery, and in other ancient Jewish sources black skin is seen as beautiful rather than disfiguring. [52]
Other forms of incest receive lesser punishment; sexual activity with a sister/stepsister is given excommunication for a punishment; [22] if it involves a brother's wife or an uncle's wife it is just cursed [23] and sexual activity with an aunt that is a blood relation is merely criticised. [24]
As punishment Yahweh has the Levites kill three thousand of the Israelites (Exodus 32:28), and Yahweh sends a plague on them. The Israelites now accept the covenant, which is reestablished; they build a tabernacle for Yahweh, and receive their laws. Yahweh commands Moses to take a census of the Israelites and establishes the duties of the ...