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Shall both of them die - Thus we find that in the most ancient of all laws adultery was punished with death in both the parties.
Those who anciently committed these sins were taken without the camp and stoned to death. Temporal and eternal death was their doom; and because the penalty of stoning to death is abolished, this sin is indulged in beyond measure and is thought to be a small offense.—Manuscript 3, 1854. TSB 249.3
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