John 8:5
Good News Translation
In our Law Moses commanded that such a woman must be stoned to death. Now, what do you say?"

New Revised Standard Version
Now in the law Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?”

Contemporary English Version
The Law of Moses teaches that a woman like this should be stoned to death! What do you say?"

New American Bible
Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what sayest thou?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what sayest thou?

Moses.

Leviticus 20:10 If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

Deuteronomy 22:21-24 They shall cast her out of the doors of her father's house, and the men of the city shall stone her to death, and she shall die: because she hath done a wicked thing in Israel, to play the whore in her father's house: and thou shalt take away the evil out of the midst of thee. . . .

Ezekiel 16:38-40 And I will judge thee as adulteresses, and they that shed blood are judged: and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. . . .

Ezekiel 23:47 And let the people stone them with stone, and let them be stabbed with their swords: they shall kill their sons and daughters, and their houses they shall burn with fire.

but.

Matthew 5:17 Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Matthew 19:6-8 Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. . . .

Matthew 22:16-18 And they sent to him their disciples with the Herodians, saying: Master, we know that thou art a true speaker and teachest the way of God in truth. Neither carest thou for any man: for thou dost not regard the person of men. . . .

Context
The Woman Caught in Adultery
4And said to him: Master, this woman was even now taken in adultery. 5Now Moses in the law commanded us to stone such a one. But what sayest thou? 6And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But Jesus bowing himself down, wrote with his finger on the ground.…
Cross References
Leviticus 20:10
If any man commit adultery with the wife of another, and defile his neighbour's wife: let them be put to death, both the adulterer and the adulteress.

Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man lie with another man's wife, they shall both die, that is to say, the adulterer and the adulteress: and thou shalt take away the evil out of Israel.

Matthew 1:19
Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing publicly to expose her, was minded to put her away privately.

John 8:4
And said to him: Master, this woman was even now taken in adultery.

John 8:4
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