Adultery of a female: Penalty

Death sentence:

Leviticus 20:10

Death sentence:

Leviticus 20:10

Exceptions or Modifications: Divorce: due to uncleanness (Mt. 19:9)

Capital punishment discontinued in the New Testament. However, we need political and legal reform so as not to reward fornication in any way. Females should be held accountable for their actions, and so should men.

Exceptions: None

Exceptions: One: The exception of a written divorce from the ex-husband so as for the ex-wife to remarry: however, the re-married woman had no protection from being divorced again, but on the other hand, the dowry bride could not be divorced.

Example: Hosea and Gomer

Modification: The second law remarriage permission was reproved and stopped by Jesus the Christ. Divorce was still permitted, but not remarriage: Remarriage was righteously judged as adultery (Mark 10: 11, 12) and disallowed.

“And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.” (KJV)

Remarriage was different than open adultery (Lv. 20:10) because of the divorce. During the era of the second law, remarriage of a female was permitted (Dt. 24:1-3). The heart of the people of God had become hardened, and Moses gave a redaction of the first law (including the Ten Commandments), which is known as the book of Deuteronomy. Then, a man could actually divorce a woman due to something he perceived as naked or unclean in his view of female morality. An unclean or divorced woman who was given (written) by her ex-husband a book of divorcement (a contract: biblion apastasiou—Greek, sayfer keritut--Hebrew) was allowed to marry again.

Later, the Lord Jesus Christ reproved the redaction (second law) and referred to the one-man purity of Eve (and even the one-woman cognizance--sexual purity of Adam). Thus, since Moses referred to the prophet to come (the Lord Jesus Christ--Dt. 18:15) and his authority, female defilement in marriage or remarriage was not tolerated in the New Testament.

LINKS:

Discern between the clean and unclean: Failure to recognize adultery-defilement perpetuity:

Billy Graham and others

John Piper Uncleanness

Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

Find healing:

Rape and Healing

After Defilement: Avoid Improper and Unwarranted Desire

Old Testament Analysis and Comparison:

New Testament: Defilement-Effect Perpetuity