Deuteronomy 22:22 Adultery

 22“If a man is [f]intimate with a woman who is another man’s wife, they shall both be put to death, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.

Notice both of them shall be put to death.

But, Deuteronomy 17: 6[b]On the evidence of two or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the evidence of [only] one witness.

So the likely hood of a death sentence for adultery being carried out would be rare.

“Though the death penalty for adultery was carried out rarely, it still had value. It communicated loudly and clearly an ideal that Israel was to live up to, and it made people regard their sin much more seriously. Today, we have done away with this ideal, and people don’t care much about adultery - and society suffers greatly as a result.” (Guzik)

But do you remember what Jesus said to those that brought the woman to Him that was caught in the act of adultery? Where was the man if they caught her?

This picture sums it up.

Sin is sin, so why do we sin?

Blessings