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9.06.2008

The Pentateuchal authority, expressed or inferred by Gezerah Shawah, affixes death by stoning to each of the following eighteen crimes: 
1. Bestiality committed by man (Lev. 20:15). 
2. Bestiality committed by woman (Lev. 20:16). 
3. Blasphemy (Lev. 24:16). 
4. Criminal conversation with a betrothed virgin (Deut. 22:23-24). 
5. Criminal conversation with one's own daughter-in-law (Lev. 20:12)
6. Criminal conversation with one's own mother (Lev. 18:7, 20:11)
7. Criminal conversation with one's own stepmother (Lev. 18:8, 20:11
8. Cursing a parent (Lev. 20:9). 
9. Enticing individuals to idolatry (Deut. 13:6-11).
10. Idolatry (Deut. 17:2-7).
11. Instigating communities to idolatry (Deut. 13:1-5). 
12. Necromancy (Lev. 20:27)
13. Offering one's own children to Molech (Lev. 20:2).
14. Pederasty (Lev. 20:13).
15. Pythonism (Lev. 20:27).
16. Rebelling against parents (Deut. 21:18-21). 
17. Sabbath-breaking (Num. 15:32-36). 
18. Witchcraft (Exo. 22:18).
- Wilhelm Bacher and Lewis N. Dembitz, Capital Punishment, Jewish Encyclopedia (1901), at http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=128&letter=C.