Deuteronomy 17:5

17:5 you must bring to your city gates that man or woman who has done this wicked thing – that very man or woman – and you must stone that person to death.

Deuteronomy 22:22

22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with a married woman both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 32:25

32:25 The sword will make people childless outside,

and terror will do so inside;

they will destroy both the young man and the virgin,

the infant and the gray-haired man.


tn Heb “gates.”

tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”

tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.

tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

tn A verb is omitted here in the Hebrew text; for purposes of English style one suitable to the context is supplied.