Hebrews 2:2
2:2 For if the message spoken through angels
proved to be so firm that every violation
or disobedience received its just penalty,
Numbers 15:30-31
Deliberate Sin
15:30 “‘But the person who acts defiantly, whether native-born or a resident foreigner, insults the Lord. That person must be cut off from among his people.
15:31 Because he has despised the word of the Lord and has broken his commandment, that person must be completely cut off. His iniquity will be on him.’”
Numbers 15:36
15:36 So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death,
just as the
Lord commanded Moses.
Deuteronomy 13:6-10
False Prophets in the Family
13:6 Suppose your own full brother, your son, your daughter, your beloved wife, or your closest friend should seduce you secretly and encourage you to go and serve other gods that neither you nor your ancestors have previously known,
13:7 the gods of the surrounding people (whether near you or far from you, from one end of the earth to the other).
13:8 You must not give in to him or even listen to him; do not feel sympathy for him or spare him or cover up for him.
13:9 Instead, you must kill him without fail! Your own hand must be the first to strike him, and then the hands of the whole community.
13:10 You must stone him to death 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 17:2-13
17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages
that the
Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God
and breaks his covenant
17:3 by serving other gods and worshiping them – the sun,
moon, or any other heavenly bodies which I have not permitted you to worship.
17:4 When it is reported to you and you hear about it, you must investigate carefully. If it is indeed true that such a disgraceful thing
is being done in Israel,
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.
17:6 At the testimony of two or three witnesses they must be executed. They cannot be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.
17:7 The witnesses
must be first to begin the execution, and then all the people
are to join in afterward. In this way you will purge evil from among you.
Appeal to a Higher Court
17:8 If a matter is too difficult for you to judge – bloodshed, legal claim, or assault – matters of controversy in your villages – you must leave there and go up to the place the Lord your God chooses.
17:9 You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.
17:10 You must then do as they have determined at that place the Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.
17:11 You must do what you are instructed, and the verdict they pronounce to you, without fail. Do not deviate right or left from what they tell you.
17:12 The person who pays no attention to the priest currently serving the Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.
17:13 Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and not be so presumptuous again.
Deuteronomy 17:2
17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages
that the
Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God
and breaks his covenant
Deuteronomy 12:9
12:9 for you have not yet come to the final stop
and inheritance the
Lord your God is giving you.
Deuteronomy 12:13
12:13 Make sure you do not offer burnt offerings in any place you wish,