1. Verses from the Bible
Anyone care to explain those versus?
Matthew 10
10:33 butwhoever denies me before men,I also will deny before my Father who is in heaven.
10:34 "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
10:35 For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law
against her mother-in-law.
10:36 And a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.
10:37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more
than me is not worthy of me.
Exodus 2
2:11 One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an
Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.
2:12 He looked this way and that, and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.
2:13 When he went out the next day, behold, two Hebrews were struggling together. And he said to the man in the
wrong, "Why do you strike your companion?"
2:14 He answered, "Who made you a prince and a judge over us? Do you mean to kill me as you killed the
Egyptian?" Then Moses was afraid, and thought, "Surely the thing is known."
2:15 When Pharaoh heard of it, he sought to kill Moses. ButMoses fled from Pharaoh and stayed in the land of
Midian. And he sat down by a well.
Exodus 21
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"When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not go out as the male slaves do. 8If she does not please her
master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a
foreign people, since he has broken faith with her. 9If he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her as with a
daughter. 10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
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And if he does not do these three things for her, she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.
15
"Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.
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"Whoever curses his father or his mother shall be put to death.
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"When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.
21
But if the slave survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, for the slave is his money.
28
"When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned, and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the
owner of the ox shall not be liable. 29But if the ox has been accustomed to gore in the past, and its owner has been
warned but has not kept it in, and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to
death. 30If a ransom is imposed on him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is imposed on him.
31
If it gores a man’s son or daughter, he shall be dealt with according to this same rule. 32If the ox gores a slave,

2. male or female, the owner shall give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.
Exodus 22
22:18 You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
2 Chronicles
15:10 They were gathered at Jerusalem in the third month of the fifteenth year of the reign of Asa.
15:11 They sacrificed to the LORD on that day from the spoil that they had brought 700 oxen and 7,000 sheep.
15:12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all
their soul,
15:13 but that whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old,
man or woman.
15:14 They swore an oath to the LORD with a loud voice and with shouting and with trumpets and with horns.
15:15 And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought him with their
whole desire, and he was found by them, and the LORD gave them rest all around.
Deuteronomy 13
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"If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder, 2and the sign or wonder
that he tells you comes to pass, and if he says, 'Let us go after other gods,' which you have not known, 'and let us
serve them,' 3you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For the LORD your God is
testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4You shall walk
after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice, and you shall serve him and
hold fast to him. 5But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has taught rebellion
against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of slavery,
to make you leave the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall purge the evil from
your midst.
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"If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife you embrace or your friend who
is as your own soul entices you secretly, saying, 'Let us go and serve other gods,' which neither you nor your fathers
have known, 7some of the gods of the peoples who are around you, whether near you or far off from you, from the
one end of the earth to the other, 8you shall not yield to him or listen to him, nor shall your eye pity him, nor shall
you spare him, nor shall you conceal him. 9But you shall kill him. Your hand shall be first against him to put him to
death, and afterward the hand of all the people. 10 You shall stone him to death with stones, because he sought to
draw you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
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And all Israel shall hear and fear and never again do any such wickedness as this among you.
12
"If you hear in one of your cities, which the LORD your God is giving you to dwell there, 13that certain worthless
fellows have gone out among you and have drawn away the inhabitants of their city, saying, 'Let us go and serve
other gods,' which you have not known, 14then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it
be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you, 15you shall surely put the inhabitants of that
city to the sword, devoting it to destruction, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword. 16You shall
gather all its spoil into the midst of its open square and burn the city and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt
offering to the LORD your God. It shall be a heap forever. It shall not be built again. 17None of the devoted things
shall stick to your hand, that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger and show you mercy and have
compassion on you and multiply you, as he swore to your fathers, 18if you obey the voice of the LORD your God,
keeping all his commandments that I am commanding you today, and doing what is right in the sight of the LORD
your God.

3. Deuteronomy 21
Inheritance Rights of the Firstborn
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"If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him
children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved, 16then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an
inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved,
who is the firstborn, 17but he shall acknowledge the firstborn, the son of the unloved, by giving him a double portion
of all that he has, for he is the firstfruits of his strength. The right of the firstborn is his.
A Rebellious Son
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"If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother,
and, though they discipline him, will not listen to them, 19then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and
bring him out to the elders of his city at the gate of the place where he lives, 20and they shall say to the elders of his
city, 'This our son is stubborn and rebellious; he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.' 21 Then all
the men of the city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall purge the evil from your midst, and all Israel
shall hear, and fear.
Deuteronomy 20
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"When you draw near to a city to fight against it, offer terms of peace to it. 11And if it responds to you peaceably
and it opens to you, then all the people who are found in it shall do forced labor for you and shall serve you. 12But if
it makes no peace with you, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it. 13And when the LORD your God
gives it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword, 14 but the women and the little ones, the livestock,
and everything else in the city, all its spoil, you shall take as plunder for yourselves. And you shall enjoy the spoil of
your enemies, which the LORD your God has given you. 15Thus you shall do to all the cities that are very far from
you, which are not cities of the nations here. 16But in the cities of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving you
for an inheritance, you shall save alive nothing that breathes, 17but you shall devote them to complete destruction,
the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the LORD your God
has commanded, 18that they may not teach you to do according to all their abominable practices that they have done
for their gods, and so you sin against the LORD your God.
Leviticus
20:27 "A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned
with stones; their blood shall be upon them."
Numbers 31
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Moses and Eleazar the priest and all the chiefs of the congregation went to meet them outside the camp. 14And
Moses was angry with the officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who
had come from service in the war. 15Moses said to them, "Have you let all the women live? 16Behold, these, on
Balaam’s advice, caused the people of Israel to act treacherously against the LORD in the incident of Peor, and so the
plague came among the congregation of the LORD. 17Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill
every woman who has known man by lying with him. 18But all the young girls who have not known man by lying with
him keep alive for yourselves. 19 Encamp outside the camp seven days. Whoever of you has killed any person and
whoever has touched any slain, purify yourselves and your captives on the third day and on the seventh day. 20You
shall purify every garment, every article of skin, all work of goats’ hair, and every article of wood."
Joshua 10
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Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me from the cave." 23And they did
so, and brought those five kings out to him from the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of
Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. 24And when they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua
summoned all the men of Israel and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, "Come near; put

4. your feet on the necks of these kings." Then they came near and put their feet on their necks. 25And Joshua said to
them, "Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and courageous. For thus the LORD will do to all your enemies
against whom you fight." 26And afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five
trees. And they hung on the trees until evening. 27But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded,
and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they
set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day. 28As for Makkedah, Joshua captured it
on that day and struck it, and its king, with the edge of the sword. He devoted to destruction every person in it; he
left none remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah just as he had done to the king of Jericho.