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Jesus, Marriage, and the Law – Deuteronomy E6
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Capital Punishment Covenant Laws in the Torah
The purpose of a capital punishment law in the Torah is to show you what kind of activities lead to death and not necessarily to actually command execution. My hunch is that this was actual law, ancient law code. They had these laws. There are probably many neighboring countries. This was a common thing to execute people. That's right. But it maintains in the Torah for a reason beyond telling you when or when not to kill someone. The question we're asking is why did an author include these laws selectively within a literary work called the Torah? It's like going to a museum exhibit on ancient Egypt and you look at some burial coffin. And you could ask, wherever this was taken from
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