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Cain said to the Lord, “My punishment is more than I can bear.
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But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.
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With the coming of dawn, the angels urged Lot, saying, “Hurry! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away when the city is punished.”
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They said to one another, “Surely we are being punished because of our brother. We saw how distressed he was when he pleaded with us for his life, but we would not listen; that’s why this distress has come on us.”
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You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
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“Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result,
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but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property.
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Now go, lead the people to the place I spoke of, and my angel will go before you. However, when the time comes for me to punish, I will punish them for their sin.”
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maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”
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Even the land was defiled; so I punished it for its sin, and the land vomited out its inhabitants.
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“‘If a man sleeps with a female slave who is promised to another man but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.
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Punishments for Sin
The Lord said to Moses,
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Punishment for Disobedience
“‘But if you will not listen to me and carry out all these commands,
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“‘If after all this you will not listen to me, I will punish you for your sins seven times over.
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then in my anger I will be hostile toward you, and I myself will punish you for your sins seven times over.
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‘The Lord is slow to anger, abounding in love and forgiving sin and rebellion. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.’
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You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
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and the elders shall take the man and punish him.
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He took the elders of the town and taught the men of Sukkoth a lesson by punishing them with desert thorns and briers.
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The Israelites Punish the Benjamites
Then all Israel from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came together as one and assembled before the Lord in Mizpah.
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After Saul had assumed rule over Israel, he fought against their enemies on every side: Moab, the Ammonites, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines. Wherever he turned, he inflicted punishment on them.
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This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt.
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Saul swore to her by the Lord, “As surely as the Lord lives, you will not be punished for this.”
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I will be his father, and he will be my son. When he does wrong, I will punish him with a rod wielded by men, with floggings inflicted by human hands.
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Then they said to each other, “What we’re doing is not right. This is a day of good news and we are keeping it to ourselves. If we wait until daylight, punishment will overtake us. Let’s go at once and report this to the royal palace.”
