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  2. List of capital crimes in the Torah - Wikipedia

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    Capital punishment in Judaism; Capital punishment; 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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    While the Bible very clearly condones and commands capital punishment, there are verses that can be interpreted as opposing the practice. For example, when Cain murdered Abel, God sentenced him to wandering as a fugitive rather than to death, and even issued a warning against killing Cain. A similar sentiment is suggested in Proverbs 28:17.

  4. Crime and punishment in the Torah - Wikipedia

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    The Hebrew Bible is considered a holy text in most Abrahamic religions. It records a large number of events and laws that are endorsed or proscribed by the God of Israel. Judaism teaches that the Torah contains 613 commandments, many of which deal with crime and punishment, but only the Noahide Laws apply to humanity in general

  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. Capital punishment in Judaism - Wikipedia

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    The Bible speaks also of hanging (Deut. 21:22), but (according to the rabbinical interpretation) not as a mode of execution, but rather of exposure after death. [60] [61] The following is a list by Maimonides of the crimes punished by each form of capital punishment: [62]

  7. 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 ...

  8. List of Hebrew Bible events - Wikipedia

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    Jeremiah prophesies against the temple and the city. He is accused of a capital crime. His life is spared after discussion of precedence. Thanks to Ahikam the son of Shaphan. 26:1-24; Following the LORD's directive, Jeremiah puts himself in bonds and a yoke. He relates that the LORD has given Nebuchadnezzar the land until his time comes.

  9. Religion and capital punishment - Wikipedia

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    Too often we learn of people who were convicted of crimes and only later are new facts uncovered by which their innocence is established. The doors of the jail can be opened, in such cases we can partially undo the injustice. But the dead cannot be brought back to life again. We regard all forms of capital punishment as barbaric and obsolete ...