Lev 20:10, Eze 16:38, 40, Joh 8:5 | Barnes

Leviticus 20:10

Ezekiel 16:38

Ezekiel 16:40

John 8:5

Verse 5. Moses in the law, &c. The punishment of adultery commanded by Moses was death, Lev 20:10, De 22:22. The particular manner of the death was not specified in the law. The Jews had themselves, in the time of Christ, determined that it should be by stoning. See this described in Mt 21:35. Mt 21:44. The punishment for adultery varied. In some cases it was strangling. In the time of Ezekiel Eze 16:38-40 it was stoning and being thrust through with a sword. If the adulteress was the daughter of a priest, the punishment was being burned to death.

(a) "Now Moses" Lev 20:10