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  2. List of capital crimes in the Torah - Wikipedia

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    Christian views on the Old Covenant; Crime and punishment in the Bible; Death penalty in the Bible; Draco (lawgiver) Jewish ethics; Religion and capital punishment; Sanhedrin; Seven Laws of Noah; Twelve Tables; Witchcraft and divination in the Hebrew Bible

  3. Capital punishment in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Sins that were punishable by death include homicide, striking one's parents, kidnapping, cursing one's parents, witchcraft and divination, bestiality, worshiping other gods, violating the Sabbath, child sacrifice, adultery, incest, and male homosexual intercourse (there is no biblical legal punishment for lesbians mentioned).

  4. Crime and punishment in the Torah - Wikipedia

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    Traditional wisdom, both in the Jewish and Christian communities, interpreted this verse in Numbers 35:31 to mean that out of the almost twenty cases calling for capital punishment in the Old Testament, every one of them could have the sanction commuted by an appropriate substitute of money or anything that showed the seriousness of the crime ...

  5. Jewish views on sin - Wikipedia

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    According to the rabbis, these terms refer to sins of different severities: ḥeṭ refers to unintentional sin, avon to intentional sin (not done to defy God), and pesha to rebellion. [9] A person is responsible for each of these sins, though least responsible for unintentional sins and most responsible for sins of defiance and rebellion.

  6. Seven deadly sins - Wikipedia

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    The seven deadly sins (also known as the capital vices or cardinal sins) function as a grouping classification of major vices within the teachings of Christianity. [1] According to the standard list, the seven deadly sins in Christianity are pride , greed , wrath , envy , lust , gluttony , and sloth .

  7. Abomination (Bible) - Wikipedia

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    Tōʻēḇā is used in the following ways: . Every shepherd was "an abomination" unto the Egyptians (Genesis 46:34).; Pharaoh was so moved by the fourth plague, that while he refused the demand of Moses, he offered a compromise, granting to the Israelites permission to hold their festival and offer their sacrifices in Egypt.

  8. Original sin - Wikipedia

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    Depiction of the sin of Adam and Eve (The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens). Original sin (Latin: peccatum originale) in Christian theology refers to the condition of sinfulness that all humans share, which is inherited from Adam and Eve due to the Fall, involving the loss of original righteousness and the distortion of the Image of God. [1]

  9. Old Testament - Wikipedia

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    The Old Testament (OT) is the first division of the Christian biblical canon, which is based primarily upon the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, a collection of ancient religious Hebrew and occasionally Aramaic writings by the Israelites. [1] The second division of Christian Bibles is the New Testament, written in Koine Greek.