Deuteronomy 22:22

22:22 If a man is caught having sexual relations with ¹  a married woman ²  both the man who had relations with the woman and the woman herself must die; in this way you will purge ³  evil from Israel.

Deuteronomy 22:24

22:24 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 ⁴  his neighbor’s fiancée; ⁵  in this way you will purge ⁶  evil from among you.

Deuteronomy 13:10

13:10 You must stone him to death ⁷  because he tried to entice you away from the Lord your God, who delivered you from the land of Egypt, that place of slavery.

Deuteronomy 17:5

17:5 you must bring to your city gates ⁸  that man or woman who has done this wicked thing – that very man or woman – and you must stone that person to death. ⁹ 

Deuteronomy 21:21

21:21 Then all the men of his city must stone him to death. In this way you will purge out ¹⁰  wickedness from among you, and all Israel ¹¹  will hear about it and be afraid.

Leviticus 24:16

24:16 and one who misuses ¹²  the name of the Lord must surely be put to death. The whole congregation must surely stone him, whether he is a foreigner or a native citizen; when he misuses the Name he must be put to death.

Leviticus 24:23

24:23 Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the Lord had commanded Moses.

Numbers 15:35-36

15:35 Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone ¹³  him with stones outside the camp.” 15:36 So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, ¹⁴  just as the Lord commanded Moses.

¹ tn Heb “lying with” (so KJV, NASB), a Hebrew idiom for sexual relations.

² tn Heb “a woman married to a husband.”

³ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

⁴ tn Heb “humbled.”

⁵ tn Heb “wife.”

⁶ tn Heb “burn.” See note on the phrase “purge out” in Deut 21:21.

⁷ sn Execution by means of pelting the offender with stones afforded a mechanism whereby the whole community could share in it. In a very real sense it could be done not only in the name of the community and on its behalf but by its members (cf. Lev 24:14; Num 15:35; Deut 21:21; Josh 7:25).

⁸ tn Heb “gates.”

⁹ tn Heb “stone them with stones so that they die” (KJV similar); NCV “throw stones at that person until he dies.”

¹⁰ tn The Hebrew term בִּעַרְתָּה (bi’artah), here and elsewhere in such contexts (cf. Deut 13:5; 17:7, 12; 19:19; 21:9), suggests God’s anger which consumes like fire (thus בָעַר, ba’ar, “to burn”). See H. Ringgren, TDOT 2:203-4.

¹¹ tc Some LXX traditions read הַנִּשְׁאָרִים (hannish’arim, “those who remain”) for the MT’s יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra’el, “Israel”), understandable in light of Deut 19:20. However, the more difficult reading found in the MT is more likely original.

¹² sn See the note on v. 11 above.

¹³ tn The sentence begins with the emphatic use of the infinitive absolute with the verb in the Hophal imperfect: “he shall surely be put to death.” Then, a second infinitive absolute רָגוֹם (ragom) provides the explanatory activity – all the community is to stone him with stones. The punishment is consistent with other decrees from God (see Exod 31:14,15; 35:2). Moses had either forgotten such, or they had simply neglected to (or were hesitant to) enact them.

¹⁴ tn Heb “stoned him with stones, and he died.”