jSee Isa. 65:15
Genesis 38:24
24About three months later Judah was told, “Tamar your daughter-in-law ahas been immoral. ▼▼Or has committed prostitution
Moreover, she is pregnant by immorality.” ▼▼Or by prostitution
And Judah said, “Bring her out, and dlet her be burned.” 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. Deuteronomy 22:22
22 g“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. hSo you shall purge the evil from Israel.2 Samuel 12:5
5Then David’s anger was greatly kindled against the man, and he said to Nathan, i“As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die,2 Samuel 12:10-11
10Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’ 11Thus says the Lord, ‘Behold, I will raise up evil against you out of your own house. And I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.Jeremiah 29:22-23
22 jBecause of them kthis curse shall be used by all the exiles from Judah in Babylon: “The Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, lwhom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire,” 23because they have done an outrageous thing in Israel, mthey have committed adultery with their neighbors’ wives, and nthey have spoken in my name lying words that I did not command them. oI am the one who knows, pand I am witness, declares the Lord.’”
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