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Article 104 – The size of the stone used in stoning shall not be too large to kill the convict by one or two throws and at the same time shall not be too small to be called a stone. [ 40 ] Depending upon the details of the case, the stoning may be initiated by the judge overseeing the matter or by one of the original witnesses to the adultery ...
The account of the ordeal of bitter water is given in the Book of Numbers: Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘If any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him, and a man lies sexually with her, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected; but she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, and ...
Being participant in sexual activity, in which a betrothed woman loses her virginity to another man [17]; Raping a betrothed woman in the countryside. [18]Adultery with a married woman. [19]
Other sources, such as Josephus, disagree. The issue is highly debated because of its relevance to the New Testament trial of Jesus. [48] [49] Ancient rabbis did not like the idea of capital punishment, and interpreted the texts in a way that made the death penalty virtually non-existent.
Homicide (excluding negligent homicide), [7] to strike/attack/smite one's parents, [8] kidnapping [9] cursing one's parents, [10] witchcraft and divination, [11] [12] bestiality [13] worshiping other gods, [14] violating the Sabbath [15] child sacrifice, [16] adultery, [17] incest, [18] and male homosexual intercourse (there is no biblical ...
Concerning the Story of the Adulteress in the Eighth Chapter of John, list marginal notes from several versions, extended discussion taken from Samuel P. Tregelles, lists extended excerpts from An Account of the Printed Text of the Greek New Testament (London, 1854), F.H.A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament ...
The 32-year-old Cuban began the season with San Francisco before being traded to Atlanta at the MLB trade deadline in July. Soler is entering the second year of a three-year, $42 million contract ...
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the L ORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing ...