⁷ The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and ^(A)very angry, because he ^(B)had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob's daughter, ^(C)for such a thing must not be done.

^6 (A)So I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel, for they have committed abomination and ^(B)outrage in Israel.

^15 (A)And he who is taken with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has, because he has ^(B)transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has done ^(C)an outrageous thing in Israel.’”

²¹ then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father's house, and ^(A)the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has ^(B)done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father's house. ^(C)So you shall purge the evil from your midst.

^4 (A)Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge ^(B)the sexually immoral and adulterous.

⁹ Then Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, “What have you done to us? And how have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and my kingdom a great sin? You have done to me things that ought not to be done.”

⁹ But you are ^(A)a chosen race, ^(B)a royal ^(C)priesthood, ^(D)a holy nation, ^(E)a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you ^(F)out of darkness into ^(G)his marvelous light.

¹⁰ From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers,^[a] these things ought not to be so.

¹³ Besides that, they learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also ^(A)gossips and ^(B)busybodies, saying what they should not.

³ But ^(A)sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness ^(B)must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.