Adultery is sex with a married person. Fornication is sex between two unmarried people, and not a violation of the Jewish 10 commandments. Trust me, it’s a lot better than ham.
For the record, the only thing that got me was “not a virgin on the wedding night” – if I were unmarried I could have checked no.
Btw, if a woman had not purported to be a virgin on her wedding night, informed the groom & he’d paid the amended dowry, she would not be liable for any penalty. The death penalty was technically more for fraud.
Lessee: never kidnapped anyone, cursed my parents (I think), murdered anyone that I know of, committed adultery except “in my heart”. Nor been raped (and boy, that’s oddly phrased - I guess a non-betrothed woman or a married woman is allowed to be silent???), done unspeakable things with critters, or most of the rest of the list.
I’m dead anyway, but I wonder if playing with a Ouija board as a kid qualifies as witchcraft? Wishing on a star? Crossing fingers? pulling a wishbone?
I suppose a Ouija board might qualify as witchcraft, so I’m right out on that one. And a couple of others ;).
I voted yes, but I’m not as adventurous as some others. They get to kill me only 3 times, because that’s how many codes on Qin’s list I’ve broken.
Does stoning for homosexual sex apply to women as well as men? It was my understanding that the Bible is mum on the subject of lesbianism; only sex between men is addressed.
It is an abomination for a man to lie with another man. But there is no mention of whether it is an abomination for a woman to lie with another woman.
Right, otherwise a man couldn’t marry his brother’s widow and begat his brother’s children upon her.
That’s what I thought. In that case, they’ve only got me on taking God’s name in vain (assuming that atheism doesn’t count as worshiping other gods). Now, they would have me on the virginity thing, except that I’m not married yet, and my fiance is aware of my non-virginal status. Never cursed my parents – I was a good kid like that.
I’m good for at least four of those if you count atheism as ‘worshipping other gods’. I suppose it depends on whether you’re going for literal meaning or implied. I would not have made it into double digits, however. I didn’t treat my mom all that well as a teenager. Shocking, I know.
But as a wise man once said:
I’ll take my place at the back of the queue.
I like to think that people who start threads by cutting and pasting from another website, and then can’t be arsed to tidy up the extraneous reference links, would be put to death under Mosaic law. Sadly, Mosaic law is several thousand years out of date in these matters.
I’d fail quite a few of those desert goat-herder things though.
In that case the Hebrew Age of Liability is actually lower than ours. Where did you get this from BTW? I’ve been down with a fever the last couple of days and suffering from extreme guilt at cursing at my aunt in a very unfortunate incident two years ago or so.
Don’t worry, we won’t stone you.
So here’s an interesting question (this is the one that does me in too, BTW): what if the groom is the one who took the bride’s virginity? If this is me, I wasn’t a virgin on my wedding night, but I did marry the guy that I lost it to. I never would have thought to have “informed” him that I wasn’t a virgin; presumably he’d already know that, one hopes. If he pays the amended dowry, are we in the clear then?
If so, then Imma gonna point and laugh at all you doomed sinners. (We’ll just not mention my general non-belief at this point.)