Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, "What have you done to us? What wrong have I done to you to make you bring this disaster on me and my kingdom? No one should ever do what you have done to me.

"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."

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?"

"Do not commit adultery.

It is just as dangerous to sleep with another man's wife. Whoever does it will suffer.

yet if he is caught, he must pay back seven times more---he must give up everything he has.

He will be dishonored and beaten up; he will be permanently disgraced.

Such a sin should be punished by death; it denies Almighty God.

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."

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

"If a man is caught having intercourse with another man's wife, both of them are to be put to death. In this way you will get rid of this evil.

You are to take them outside the town and stone them to death. She is to die because she did not cry out for help, although she was in a town, where she could have been heard. And the man is to die because he had intercourse with someone who was engaged. In this way you will get rid of this evil.

I will condemn you for adultery and murder, and in my anger and fury I will punish you with death.