God’s Laws for CAPITAL
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Idolatry
2
Occult Practices
PUNISHMENT
Leviticus 20:2
‘Any man … who gives any of his offspring to Molech, shall surely be put to death; the people
of the land shall stone him with stones
Exodus 22:18
“You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
Leviticus 20:27
A man or a woman who is a medium or a spiritist shall surely be put to death. They shall be
stoned with stones, their bloodguiltiness is upon them.’”
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Blaspheming God
4
Prophesying
Falsely
5
8
Breaking the
Sabbath
Striking or
Cursing a Parent
Killing a human
intentionally
Adultery
9
Rape
10
Unchastity before
Marriage
6
7
Leviticus 24:13-16
“Bring the one who has cursed outside the camp, and let all who heard him lay their hands on
his head; then let all the congregation stone him…‘If anyone curses his God, then he shall
bear his sin. ‘Moreover, the one who blasphemes the name of the Lord shall surely be put to
death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him. The alien as well as the native, when he
blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
Deuteronomy 13:5
“But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has counseled
rebellion against the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt and redeemed
you from the house of slavery, to seduce you from the way in which the Lord your God
commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from among you.
Exodus 31:14
Everyone who profanes [the Sabbath] shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work
on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.
Exodus 21:15,17
“And he who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
“And he who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 21:12
“He who strikes a man so that he dies shall surely be put to death.
Leviticus 20:10
‘If there is a man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, one who commits adultery
with his friend’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 22:25
“But if in the field the man finds the girl who is engaged, and the man forces her and lies
with her, then only the man who lies with her shall die.
Deuteronomy 22:20-21
“But if this charge is true, that the girl was not found a virgin, then they shall bring out the
girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death
because she has committed an act of folly in Israel, by playing the harlot in her father’s
house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
Leviticus 21:9
Also the daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by harlotry, she profanes her father;
she shall be burned with fire.
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Incest
Leviticus 20:11-12
‘If there is a man who lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness;
both of them shall surely be put to death… ‘If there is a man who lies with his daughter-inlaw, both of them shall surely be put to death; they have committed incest.
Leviticus 20:14
‘If there is a man who marries a woman and her mother, it is immorality; both he and they
shall be burned with fire, that there may be no immorality in your midst.
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Homosexuality
13
Bestiality
14
15
Kidnapping
False Witness in
a Capital Crime
Leviticus 20:13
And if a man lie with mankind, as with womankind, both of them have committed
abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 20:15-16
‘If there is a man who lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; you shall also kill
the animal. ‘If there is a woman who approaches any animal to mate with it, you shall kill the
woman and the animal; they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltiness is upon them.
Exodus 21:16
He that steals a man, and sells him, or if he be found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.
Deuteronomy 19:18-21
If the witness is false and he has accused his brother falsely, then you shall do to him just as
he had intended to do to his brother. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you. And the
rest will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such an evil thing among you. You shall
not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
God gave His law to restrain sin, not to reform sinners.
The penalties He imposed were for the purpose of upholding His law, not improving the offenders…..Warren
Wiersbe, Commentary on Leviticus