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  2. Capital punishment in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    [32] According to the Talmud, this verse is a death penalty. [33] In Genesis 38:24-26, when Judah is told that Tamar (his former daughter-in-law) had become a harlot and was pregnant, he sentences her to death by burning. However, she proves that he (Judah) is the father, and (apparently) the ruling is reversed. [3] [4]

  3. List of capital crimes in the Torah - Wikipedia

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    If an ox has gored in the past and the owner has been warned about the behavior of the ox but has failed to confine it, and it gores and kills another person, the owner is to be put to death. If the interested party requires payment of a fee death is not required. If a slave is killed the owner of the ox is to pay a fine.

  4. Crime and punishment in the Torah - Wikipedia

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    The Bible prescribes the death penalty for the following activities, among others: Murder [13] Adultery [13] Bestiality [14] Rape of a betrothed virgin [15] 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.

  5. The Bible and violence - Wikipedia

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    Warfare represents a special category of biblical violence and is a topic the Bible addresses, directly and indirectly, in four ways: there are verses that support pacifism, and verses that support non-resistance; 4th century theologian Augustine found the basis of just war in the Bible, and preventive war which is sometimes called crusade has also been supported using Bible texts.

  6. Judaism and violence - Wikipedia

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    While the Bible and Talmud specify many violent punishments, including death by stoning, decapitation, burning, and strangulation for some crimes, [38] these punishments were substantially modified during the Rabbinic era, primarily by adding additional requirements for conviction. [39]

  7. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour

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    According to the Bible, the Lord denounces lying as the work of the devil: "You are of your father the devil, . . . there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies." (John 8:44) Lying is the most direct offense against the truth.

  8. Thou shalt not commit adultery - Wikipedia

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    The law clearly stated that both parties were to receive the death penalty. [23] By not bringing the guilty man to justice, these leaders shared in the guilt and were not fit to carry out the punishment. Not condoning her adultery, Jesus warns the woman in parting, "Go and sin no more" [24] The Apostle Paul wrote frankly about the gravity of ...

  9. Thou shalt not kill - Wikipedia

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    The Sixth Commandment, as translated by the Book of Common Prayer (1549). The image is from the altar screen of the Temple Church near the Law Courts in London.. Thou shalt not kill (LXX, KJV; Ancient Greek: Οὐ φονεύσεις, romanized: Ou phoneúseis), You shall not murder (NIV, Biblical Hebrew: לֹא תִּרְצָח, romanized: Lo tirṣaḥ) or Do not murder (), is a moral ...