Archaic Old Testament sins and punishments

This is a compilation of sins described in the Old Testament and their recommended punishments. Most contemporary Christian Singaporeans no longer subscribe to them.

=Punishment for adultery=

Leviticus 20:10. If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

Leviticus 20:11. If a man lie with his stepmother, and discover the nakedness of his father, let them both be put to death: their blood be upon them.

Leviticus 20:12. If any man lie with his daughter in law: let both die, because they have done a heinous crime. Their blood be upon them.

Leviticus 20:14. If any man after marrying the daughter, marry her mother, he hath done a heinous crime. He shall be burnt alive with them: neither shall so great an abomination remain in the midst of you.

Leviticus 20:17. If any man take his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother, and see her nakedness, and she behold her brother's shame: they have committed a crime. They shall be slain, in the sight of their people, because they have discovered one another's nakedness. And they shall bear their iniquity.

Leviticus 20:19. Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy aunt by thy mother, and of thy aunt by thy father. He that doth this, hath uncovered the shame of his own flesh: both shall bear their iniquity.

Leviticus 20:20. If any man lie with the wife of his uncle by the father, or of his uncle by the mother, and uncover the shame of his near akin, both shall bear their sin. They shall die without children.

Leviticus 20:21. He that marrieth his brother's wife, doth an unlawful thing: he hath uncovered his brother's nakedness. They shall be without children.

Deuteronomy 22:22. If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel.

=Punishment for having sex with a menstruating woman=

Leviticus 20:18. If any man lie with a woman in her flowers, and uncover her nakedness, and she open the fountain of her blood: both shall be destroyed out of the midst of their people.

Leviticus 15:19. The woman, who at the return of the month, hath her issue of blood, shall be separated seven days. Leviticus 15:20. Every one that toucheth her, shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:21. And every thing that she sleepeth on, or that she sitteth on in the days of her separation, shall be defiled.

Leviticus 15:22. He that toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes: and being himself washed with water, shall be unclean until the evening.

Leviticus 15:23. Whosoever shall touch any vessel on which she sitteth, shall wash his clothes: and himself being washed with water, shall be defiled until the evening.

Leviticus 15:24. If a man copulateth with her in the time of her flowers, he shall be unclean seven days: and every bed on which he shall sleep, shall be defiled.

=Punishment for working on Saturday=

Exodus 31:15. Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath, the rest holy to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work on this day, shall die.

Exodus 35:2. Six days you shall do work; the seventh day shall be holy unto you, the sabbath and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on it, shall be put to death.

=Punishment for disobedient children=

Exodus 21:15. He that striketh his father or mother, shall be put to death.

Exodus 21:17. He that curseth his father or mother, shall die the death.

Deuteronomy 21:18. If a man have a stubborn and unruly son, who will not hear the commandments of his father or mother, and being corrected, slighteth obedience:

Deuteronomy 21:19. They shall take him and bring him to the ancients of the city, and to the gate of judgment,

Deuteronomy 21:20. And shall say to them: This our son is rebellious and stubborn, he slighteth hearing our admonitions, he giveth himself to revelling, and to debauchery and banquetings:

Deuteronomy 21:21. The people of the city shall stone him: and he shall die, that you may take away the evil out of the midst of you, and all Israel hearing it may be afraid.

=Punishment for worshipping other gods=

Exodus 22:20. He that sacrificeth to gods, shall be put to death, save only to the Lord.

Deutoronomy 7:26. Neither shalt thou bring any thing of the idol into thy house, lest thou become an anathema, like it. Thou shalt detest it as dung, and shalt utterly abhor it as uncleanness and filth, because it is an anathema. Sanctioning of slavery

Exodus 21:7. If any man sell his daughter to be a servant, she shall not go out as bondwomen are wont to go out.

Exodus 21:8. If she displease the eyes of her master to whom she was delivered, he shall let her go: but he shall have no power to sell her to a foreign nation, if he despise her.

Leviticus 25:44. Let your bondmen, and your bondwomen, be of the nations that are round about you:

=Prohibitions on what to eat, wear and personal appearance=

Leviticus: 11:4 Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.

Leviticus 11:6. The hare also: for that too cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof.

Leviticus 11:7. And the swine, which, though it divideth the hoof, cheweth not the cud.

Leviticus 11:8. The flesh of these you shall not eat, nor shall you touch their carcasses, because they are unclean to you.

Leviticus 11:10. But whatsoever hath not fins and scales, of those things that move and live in the waters, shall be an abomination to you,

Leviticus 11:11. And detestable. Their flesh you shall not eat: and their carcasses you shall avoid.

Leviticus 11:12. All that have not fins and scales, in the waters, shall be unclean.

Leviticus 19:19. Keep ye my laws. Thou shalt not make thy cattle to gender with beasts of any other kind. Thou shalt not sow thy field with different seeds. Thou shalt not wear a garment that is woven of two sorts.

Leviticus 19:27. Nor shall you cut your hair roundwise: nor shave your beard.

Leviticus 19:28. You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh, for the dead: neither shall you make in yourselves any figures or marks. I am the Lord.

=Prevention of the disabled from worshipping=

Leviticus 21:17. Say to Aaron: Whosoever of thy seed throughout their families, hath a blemish, he shall not offer bread to his God.

Leviticus 21:18. Neither shall he approach to minister to him: If he be blind; if he be lame; if he have a little, or a great, or a crooked nose;

Leviticus 21:19. If his foot, or if his hand be broken;

Leviticus 21:20. If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture.

Leviticus 21:21. Whosoever of the seed of Aaron the priest hath a blemish: he shall not approach to offer sacrifices to the Lord, nor bread to his God. Punishment for bestiality

Leviticus 20:15. He that shall copulate with any beast or cattle, dying let him die: the beast also ye shall kill. The beast also ye shall kill. . .The killing of the beast was for the greater horror of the crime, and to prevent the remembrance of such abomination.

Leviticus 20:16. The woman that shall lie under any beast, shall be killed together with the same. Their blood be upon them.

=References=

The Old Testament of the King James Version of the Bible