Then the king sent for Abram and asked him, "What have you done to me? Why didn't you tell me that she was your wife?

"What have you done to us?" Abimelech said. "One of my men might easily have slept with your wife, and you would have been responsible for our guilt."

He said to Aaron, "What did these people do to you, that you have made them commit such a terrible sin?"

So the LORD sent a disease on the people, because they had caused Aaron to make the gold bull-calf.

And Joshua said, "Why have you brought such trouble on us? The LORD will now bring trouble on you!" All the people then stoned Achan to death; they also stoned and burned his family and possessions.

And he added, "Why, sir, are you still pursuing me, your servant? What have I done? What crime have I committed?

Your Majesty, listen to what I have to say. If it is the LORD who has turned you against me, an offering to him will make him change his mind; but if some people have done it, may the LORD's curse fall on them. For they have driven me out from the LORD's land to a country where I can only worship foreign gods.

If you trick an honest person into doing evil, you will fall into your own trap. The innocent will be well rewarded.

About three months later someone told Judah, "Your daughter-in-law Tamar has been acting like a whore, and now she is pregnant." Judah ordered, "Take her out and burn her to death."

I have as much authority in this house as he has, and he has not kept back anything from me except you. How then could I do such an immoral thing and sin against God?"

If a man commits adultery with the wife of an Israelite, both he and the woman shall be put to death.

David became very angry at the rich man and said, "I swear by the living LORD that the man who did this ought to die!

Now, in every generation some of your descendants will die a violent death because you have disobeyed me and have taken Uriah's wife.

I swear to you that I will cause someone from your own family to bring trouble on you. You will see it when I take your wives from you and give them to another man; and he will have intercourse with them in broad daylight.

For God judges everyone by the same standard.

Marriage is to be honored by all, and husbands and wives must be faithful to each other. God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

just as Jacob's sons were coming in from the fields. When they heard about it, they were shocked and furious that Shechem had done such a thing and had insulted the people of Israel by raping Jacob's daughter.

"No," she said. "Don't force me to do such a degrading thing! That's awful!

It is necessary to stop their talk, because they are upsetting whole families by teaching what they should not, and all for the shameful purpose of making money.