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death penalty

Capital punishment prescribed in the Mosaic Law for specific offenses against God and community

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The Torah prescribed death for offenses including murder, adultery, blasphemy, idolatry, and Sabbath-breaking. These severe penalties reflected the seriousness of covenant violations and the holiness required of God's people.

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Eye for Eye — The Justice CodeLeviticus 24:17-22

The death penalty heads the justice code here as the prescribed consequence for taking human life — the most severe crime receives the most severe proportional response, no more and no less.

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