Missionaries often complain that some Islamic laws seem harsh. What
would they think of these verses in the Bible?
Penalty Must be Carried Out
Moreover you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer who is
subject to the death penalty; a murderer must be put to death. (Numbers
35:31)
bible prescribes
Death for:
Touching Mount Sinai
Any who touch the mountain shall be put to death. (Exodus 19:12)
If Your Ox Kills a Person
. . . the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.
(Exodus 21:29)
If You Kill a Burglar After Sunrise
. . . but if it happens after sunrise, bloodguilt is incurred. (Exodus
22:3)
For Worshipping a Cow
He said to them, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Put your
sword on your side, each of you! Go back and forth from gate to gate
throughout the camp, and each of you kill your brother, your friend,
and your neighbor.'" The sons of Levi did as Moses commanded, and about
three thousand of the people fell on that day. (Exodus 32:27-28 )
Having intercourse with
a woman in her period
If a man lies with a woman having her sickness and uncovers her
nakedness, he has laid bare her flow and she has laid bare her flow of
blood; both of them shall be cut off from their people. (Leviticus
20:18 )
Any Outsider Who Comes
Near the Place of Worship
. . . any outsider who comes near shall be put to death. (Numbers 3:10)
For Bringing a Foreign
Woman into the Camp
. . . he went after the Israelite man into the tent, and pierced the
two of them, the Israelite and the woman, through the belly. So the
plague was stopped among the people of Israel. (Numbers 25:8 )
Death to a Whole City for Worshipping Other Gods
. . . you shall put the inhabitants of that town to the sword, utterly
destroying it and everything in it - even putting its livestock to
the sword. All of its spoil you shall gather into its public square;
then burn the town and all its spoil with fire, as a whole burnt
offering to the LORD your God. It shall remain a perpetual ruin, never
to be rebuilt. (Deuteronomy 13:15-16)
A Prophet Speaking in
the Name of Another God
But any prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, or who presumes
to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded the prophet to
speak - that prophet shall die." (Deuteronomy 18:20)
Malicious False Witness
. . . then you shall do to the false witness just as the false witness
had meant to do to the other . . . . Show no pity: life for life, eye
for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. (Deuteronomy
19:19-21)
A City That Refuses to Surrender
When you draw near to a town to fight against it, offer it terms of
peace.
If it accepts your terms of peace and surrenders to you, then all the
people in it shall serve you at forced labor. If it does not submit to
you peacefully, but makes war against you, then you shall besiege it;
and when the LORD your God gives it into your hand, you shall put all
its males to the sword. You may, however, take as your booty the women,
the children, livestock, and everything else in the town, all its
spoil. You may enjoy the spoil of your enemies, which the LORD your God
has given you. (Deuteronomy 20:10-14)
But as for the towns of these peoples that the LORD your God is giving
you as an inheritance, you must not let anything that breathes remain
alive. (Deuteronomy 20:16)
Murder
If anyone kills another, the murderer shall be put to death . . . .
(Numbers 35:30)
Moreover you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer who is
subject to the death penalty; a murderer must be put to death. (Numbers
35:31)
Adultery
. . . both the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.
(Leviticus 20:10)
Rape of a Betrothed Virgin
In the Open Country
. . . then only the man who lay with her shall die. (Deuteronomy 22:25)
A Raped Woman Who
Did Not Cry for Help
. . . stone them to death, the young woman because she did not cry for
help in the town and the man because he violated his neighbor's wife.
(Deuteronomy 22:24)
Incest
If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to
death; they have committed perversion, their blood is upon them.
(Leviticus 20:12)
Bestiality
If a man has sexual relations with an animal, he shall be put to death;
and you shall kill the animal. (Leviticus 20:15)
If a woman approaches any animal and has sexual relations with it, you
shall kill the woman and the animal. . . . (Leviticus 20:16)
Sodomy
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed
an abomination; they shall be put to death. . . . (Leviticus 20:13)
Kidnapping
Whoever kidnaps a person . . . shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:16)
Priest's Daughter Fornicating
When the daughter of a priest profanes herself through prostitution,
she profanes her father; she shall be burned to death. (Leviticus 21:9)
Witchcraft
You shall not permit a female sorcerer to live. (Exodus 22:18 )
Offering Human sacrifice
. . . who give any of their offspring to Molech shall be put to death;
the people of the land shall stone them to death. (Leviticus 20:2)
Striking or cursing father or mother
Whoever strikes father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:15)
Whoever curses father or mother shall be put to death. (Exodus 21:17)
Disobedience to Parents
They shall say to the elders of his town, "This son of ours is stubborn
and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard."
Then all the men of the town shall stone him to death. So you shall
purge the evil from your midst; and all Israel will hear, and be
afraid. (Deuteronomy 21:20-21)
Blasphemy
One who blasphemes the name of the LORD shall be put to death . . . .
(Leviticus 24:16)
Working on a Saturday
. . . whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. (Exodus 35:2)
Gathering Sticks on a Saturday
. . . they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day. . . .
The whole congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to
death, just as the LORD had commanded Moses. (Numbers 15:32-36)
Family or Friends Who Invite
You to Worship Another God
If anyone secretly entices you--even if it is your brother, your
father's son or your mother's son, or your own son or daughter, or the
wife you embrace, or your most intimate friend--saying, "Let us go
worship other gods," whom neither you nor your ancestors have known. .
. . Show them no pity or compassion and do not shield them. But you
shall surely kill them; your own hand shall be first against them to
execute them, and afterwards the hand of all the people. (Deuteronomy
13:6-10)
Sacrificing to false gods
Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, shall be
devoted to destruction. (Exodus 22:20)
Disobeying the Priest or the Judge
As for anyone who presumes to disobey the priest appointed to minister
there to the LORD your God, or the judge, that person shall die. So you
shall purge the evil from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12)