And we rightly so, for we are getting what we deserve for what we did, but this man has done nothing ¹  wrong.”

I tell you the solemn truth, ¹  if anyone obeys ²  my teaching, ³  he will never see death.” ⁴ 

Peter said to him, “Lord, why can’t I follow you now? I will lay down my life for you!” ¹ 

He ¹  was given over ²  because of our transgressions and was raised for the sake of ³  our justification. ⁴ 

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

And let us not be immoral, as some of them were, and twenty-three thousand died in a single day. ¹ 

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

For we have brought nothing into this world and so ¹  we cannot take a single thing out either.

For I am already being poured out as an offering, and the time for me to depart ¹  is at hand.

Indeed, I will also make every effort that, after my departure, you have a testimony of these things. ¹ 

you must bring the two of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry out though in the city and the man because he violated ¹  his neighbor’s fiancée; ²  in this way you will purge ³  evil from among you.

Then the Lord said to Moses, “You are about to die, ¹  and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they ²  are going. They ³  will reject ⁴  me and break my covenant that I have made with them. ⁵ 

But he did not execute the sons of the assassins. He obeyed the Lord’s commandment as recorded in the law scroll of Moses, ¹  “Fathers must not be put to death for what their sons do, ²  and sons must not be put to death for what their fathers do. ³  A man must be put to death only for his own sin.” ⁴ 

These days were to be remembered and to be celebrated in every generation and in every family, every province, and every city. The Jews were not to fail to observe these days of Purim; the remembrance of them was not to cease among their descendants.

For the fate of humans ¹  and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting.

So they cried out to the Lord, “Oh, please, Lord, don’t let us die on account of this man! Don’t hold us guilty of shedding innocent blood. ¹  After all, you, Lord, have done just as you pleased.” ² 

So Abimelech commanded all the people, “Whoever touches ¹  this man or his wife will surely be put to death.” ² 

With her dying breath, ¹  she named him Ben-Oni. ²  But his father called him Benjamin instead. ³ 

“If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she ¹  dies as a result of the blow, ²  he will surely be punished. ³ 

“If a thief is caught ¹  breaking in ²  and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him. ³