The Bible as a Moral Guide to Conduct

Old Testament laws:

• Working on the sabbath is punishable by death

• Adultery is punishable by death

• A priest’s daughter who becomes a prostitute shall be burnt to death

• A disobedient son shall be stoned to death

• Cursing one’s father or mother is punishable by death

• Foreigners can be bought as slaves

• A slave can be beaten to death without penalty, provided that one day or two passes between the beating and the death