The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. 1:51

Kill any stranger that comes near the tabernacle.

Nadab and Abihu died before the LORD, when they offered strange fire before the LORD. 3:4

Two of Aaron's sons are killed by God for "offering strange fire before the Lord."

The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. 3:10

Kill any strangers that come near the tabernacle.

All the firstborn are mine ... both man and beast. 3:13

All firstborn men and beasts belong to God, since God killed all the firstborn of Egypt.

The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death. 3:38

They shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die. 4:15, 20

Don't touch or "go in to see when the holy things are covered." God kills people who touch or look at holy things.

Put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is defiled by the dead. 5:1-4

God tells the people to expel from camp "every leper, every one that hath an issue, and whoever is defiled by the dead." So by God's instructions, the sick are abandoned and left to suffer and die alone.

If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him ... And the spirit of jealousy come upon him ... This is the law of jealousies. 5:11-31

The Law of Jealousies. If a man suspects his wife of being unfaithful, he reports it to the priest. The priest then makes her drink some "bitter water." If she is guilty, the water makes her thigh rot and her belly swell. If innocent, no harm done -- the woman is free and will "conceive seed." In any case, "the man shall be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity."

If any man's wife go aside, and commit a trespass against him ... And the spirit of jealousy come upon him ... This is the law of jealousies. 5:11-31

The law of Jealousies: If a man suspects his wife of being unfaithful, he reports it to the priest. The priest then makes her drink some "bitter water." If she is guilty, the water makes her thigh rot and her belly swell. If innocent, no harm done -- the woman is free and will "conceive seed." In any case, "the man shall be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity."

Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest ... And the priest shall ... set her before the LORD ... and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse. 5:15-17

"And the priest shall ... say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee ... be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse." 5:19

"Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell." 5:20-21

"But if ... some man have lain with thee beside thine husband ... The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell." 5:22

"And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse." 5:24

"And when he hath made her to drink the water ... if she be defiled ... the water that causeth the curse shall ... become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people." 5:27

"And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed." 5:28

"Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity." 5:31

The Israelites are God's favortite people, and the Levites are his favorites among the Israelites. 8:15-16

"All the firstborn of the children of Israel are mine, both man and beast." 8:17

All firstborn Israelites, "both man and beast", belong to God. He got them the day that he killed every Egyptian firstborn child and animal.

If you don't keep the Passover you'll be "cut off" from your people. 9:13

"And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it (He had his hearing aid on.) .... and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the LORD burnt among them, and consumed them." 11:1-2

God burned the complainers alive. That'll teach them!

"There is nothing at all, beside this manna." 11:4, 19-20

The people begin to whine about not having any meat. So God says he'll give them meat, alright. He'll give them "flesh to eat," not for just a few days, but "for a whole month, until it come out of [their] nostrils, and it be loathsome to [them]." Yuck.

"And while the flesh [of the quails] was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague." 11:33

The Bible isn't too clear about what these poor folks did to upset God so much; all it says is that they had "lusted."

"Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married." 12:1, 9-10

Miriam and Aaron (Moses' brother and sister) criticize Moses for marrying an Ethiopian woman and thus breaking the law of God. But God makes it clear that his rules don't apply to his favorites, and he strikes Miriam with leprosy. Notice that only Miriam is punished, though both she and Aaron complained.Â

"Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married." 12:1, 9-10

Miriam and Aaron (Moses' brother and sister) criticize Moses for marrying an Ethiopian woman and thus breaking the law of God. But God makes it clear that his rules don't apply to his favorites, and he strikes Miriam with leprosy. Notice that only Miriam is punished, though both she and Aaron complained.Â

"I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they." 14:12

God tells Moses that he is going to kill all of the Israelites -- every last whining one of the them, and then make a whole bunch of brand new Israelites.

"The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation." 14:18

God punishes the children for the failings of their great-great grandfathers.

"They shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers." 14:20-35

So Moses talked God out of killing everyone. He'll just see to it that no one over 20 years old survives the trip to Israel. Their "carcases shall fall in the wilderness."

"Those men that did bring up the evil report upon the land, died by the plague before the LORD. 14:36-37

God killed the ten spies that gave a discouraging report with a plague.

"Ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the LORD." 14:43-45

To further punish the Israelites for whining and plotting against Moses, God will send the Amelekites and Canaanites to smite them.

"If any soul sin through ignorance ..." but how can someone sin through ignorance? Don't you have to know that an action is wrong for it to be sinful? Oh well, if you do happen to sin through ignorance, you can be forgiven by God if you kill some animals. 15:27-30

"And the LORD said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones." 15:32-36

The Israelites find a man picking up sticks on the sabbath. God commands them to kill him by throwing rocks at him.

"Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment." 16:20-21

God warns everyone to get away; he's going to kill some more people.

"Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me ... if the LORD make ... the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit..." 16:28-30

Moses tells the people that if the ground opens up and swallows the rebels and their families, then you'll know that God's on his side.

"The earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah ... They ... went down alive into the pit, and the earth closed upon them." 16:31-33

"And there came out a fire from the LORD, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense." 16:35

After burning the the 250 men whho offered incense, God tells Moses to keep their censers (because they are holy) to remind everyone not to offer incense without a license. 16:36-40

"Ye have killed the people of the LORD." 16:41-50

After God killed Korah, his family, and 250 innocent bystanders, the people complained saying, "ye have killed the people of the Lord." So God, who doesn't take kindly to criticism, sends a plague on the people. And "they that died in the plague were 14,700."

"Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume them as in a moment." 16:44-45

God threatens (again) to kill everyone (but his special friends, Moses and Aaron).

"For there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun ... they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred." 16:46-49

"Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred, beside them that died about the matter of Korah." 16:49

"Shall we be consumed with dying?" 17:12-13

God threatens to kill those who murmur. To which the people reply, "Behold, we die, we perish, we all perish .... Shall we be consumed with dying?"

"They shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die." 18:3

Stay away from holy things and places -- like churches. God might have to kill you if you get too close.

"The stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death." 18:7

"Thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savour unto the LORD ... by a statute for ever: it is a covenant of salt for ever before the LORD." 18:17-19

God describes once again the procedure for ritualistic animal sacrifices. such rituals must be extremely important to God, since he makes their performance a "statute" and "covenant" forever. Why, then don't Bible-believers perform these sacrifices anymore? Don't they realize how God must miss the "sweet savour" of burning flesh? Don't they believe God when he says "forever"?

"Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the tabernacle of the congregation, lest they bear sin, and die." 18:22

"Neither shall ye pollute the holy things of the children of Israel, lest ye die." 18:32

"Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them." 20:12

For hitting the rock instead of talking to it, God punished Moses by not permitting him to see the promised land.

"Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities. And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities." 21:2-3

This verse demonstrates the power of prayer: If you ask God, he will destroy entire cities for you.

"The LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died." 21:6

God sends "fiery serpents" to bite his chosen people, and many of them die.

" Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border ... And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land." 21:23-24

King Sihon would not all Israel to pass through his land, so the Israelites killed him and his people and possessed his land./p>

"The LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people ... So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land." 21:34-35

God delivers the Amorites into Moses' hands. (You're in God hands with Moses.) So Moses does the usual thing, killing everyone "until their was none left alive."

God says to Balaam, "If men come to call thee, rise up, and go with them." Men come, and Balaam goes with them, just as God had commanded. "And God's anger was kindled because he went" -- but he was just following God's instructions! 22:20-22

After the people "commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab," Moses has them all killed. Then God tells Moses to hang their dead bodies up in front of him; God says that this will satisfy him. 25:1-5

When one of the Israelite men brings home a foreign woman, "Phinehas (Aaron's grandson) sees them and throws a spear "through the man .. and the woman through her belly." This act pleases God so much that "the plague was stayed from the children of Israel." But not before 24,000 had died. 25:6-9

For impaling the interracial couple, God rewards Phinehas and his sons with the everlasting priesthood. 25:10-13

God tells Moses how to care for his neighbors by saying: "Vex the Midianites, and smite them." 25:16-17

The ground swallow Korah and his companions and a fire consumes 250 men. 26:10

"And Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the Lord." When you go camping avoid making any unusual fires. 26:61

God tells Moses to climb Mount Abarim, where he will see the promised land. After seeing it, Moses will die -- since he struck the rock to get water out of it (instead of just talking to it). See Num 20:6-12 27:12-14

Under God's direction, Moses' army defeats the Midianites. They kill all the adult males, but take the women and children captive. When Moses learns that they left some live, he angrily says: "Have you saved all the women alive? Kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." So they went back and did as Moses (and presumably God) instructed, killing everyone except for the virgins. In this way they got 32,000 virgins -- Wow! (Even God gets some of the booty -- including the virgins.) 31:1-54

"The prey that was taken, both of man and of beast" was offered as a "heave offering of the LORD." 31:26-29

God killed all the Egyptian firstborn. 33:4

God tells Moses to exterminate the residents of Canaan and destroy all of their religious symbols and possessions. 33:50-52

But if the Israelites don't kill them all, then God will make them pricks in their eyes and thorns in their sides. And he will do unto the Israelites as he planned to do to the inhabitants of Canaan. 33:55-56

If a person accidentally kills someone, then she should go to a city of refuge. If she can get to the city of refuge before the "revenger of blood" (the victim's closest relative) can catch her, then she is safe, at least until the high priest dies (I don't know what he has to do with it). But if she is caught outside the city of refuge, then the revenger of blood can kill her. 35:11-12

"The revenger of blood himself shall slay the murderer: when he meeteth him, he shall slay him." The "revenger of blood" (the victim's closest relative) must murder the murderer just as soon as he sees him. 35:19, 21

"But if the slayer shall at any time come without the border of the city of his refuge ... and the revenger of blood kill the slayer; he shall not be guilty of blood. Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest" If the accidental killer leaves the city of refuge and is caught by the revenger of blood, then the revenger can legally kill the accidental killer. 35:26-28

"Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death." 35:30

"The land cannot be cleansed of the blood that is shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it." 35:33