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Deuteronomy 22:22

Present in both Jewish texts and the Christian Old Testament, the book of Deuteronomy is effectively a series of speeches by Moses in which he tells Israelites how God wants them to worship and live. And one of those rules is that adulterers should die. “If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both of them die,” reads the King James translation of Deuteronomy 22:22.

Miller specifically referenced this passage in a social media post where he also cited his Christian bona fides. “I say this, in particular because I am a Christian: there should be no defence to the crime of publicly inciting hatred because, for example, someone relied on Leviticus 20:13 or Deuteronomy 22:22,” he wrote.

Killing adulterers is notably absent from

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