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Bible Verses About Punishments

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  1. But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.

  2. Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”

  3. About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”

  4. Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”

  5. If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.

  6. eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

  7. But if the ox has a habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its owner must also be put to death.

  8. If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.

  9. But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring, yet its owner failed to restrain it, he shall pay full compensation, ox for ox, and the dead animal will be his.

  10. “If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.

  11. If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.

  12. But if it happens after sunrise, there is guilt for his bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution; if he has nothing, he himself shall be sold for his theft.

  13. If what was stolen is actually found alive in his possession—whether ox or donkey or sheep—he must pay back double.

  14. once he has sinned and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found,

  15. or anything else about which he has sworn falsely. He must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value, and pay it to the owner on the day he acknowledges his guilt.

  16. “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.

  17. If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

  18. “Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

  19. Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.

  20. and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.

  21. And the LORD said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to stone him outside the camp.”

  22. So the whole congregation took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  23. Then the LORD said to Moses, “Take all the leaders of the people and execute them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that His fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”

  24. You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.

  25. Nor should you accept a ransom for the person who flees to a city of refuge and allow him to return and live on his own land before the death of the high priest.