Genesis 20:3
3 aBut God came to Abimelech bin a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.”Genesis 20:7
7Now then, return the man’s wife, cfor he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you dand all who are yours.”Genesis 20:9
9Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.”Leviticus 20:10
Punishments for Sexual Immorality
10“If a eman commits adultery with the wife of ▼▼Hebrew repeats if a man commits adultery with the wife of
his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death. Leviticus 21:9
9And the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by whoring, profanes her father; gshe shall be burned with fire.Deuteronomy 22:21-27
21then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and hthe men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has idone an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father’s house. jSo you shall purge the evil from your midst.22 k“If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. lSo you shall purge the evil from Israel.
23“If there is a mbetrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, 24then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. nSo you shall purge the evil from your midst.
25“But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die. 26But you shall do nothing to the young woman; she has committed no offense punishable by death. For this case is like that of a man attacking and murdering his neighbor, 27because he met her in the open country, and though the betrothed young woman cried for help there was no one to rescue her.
Deuteronomy 24:16
16 o“Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.2 Samuel 12:5
5Then David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, p“As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die,2 Samuel 12:7
7Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, q‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
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