Noach (parsha) of every man's and beast's life-blood, and whoever shed the blood of man would have his blood shed by man, for in God's image did God make man. God told them to be fertile and increase. The fourth reading (, "aliyah") and a closed portion (, "setumah") end here. In the fifth reading (, "aliyah"), God made a covenant with Noah, his sons, and every living thing that never again would a flood destroy the earth. God set the rainbow in the clouds as the sign of God's covenant with earth, so that when the bow appeared in the clouds,
Death penalty in the Bible that crucifixion was an illegal form of Jewish punishment and that Jesus did not receive a Jewish trial before death. In Acts 5:1-11, Saint Peter spoke words of judgment upon Ananias and Sapphira for lying to God (Ananias) and testing the Spirit (Sapphira), after which each of them fell dead. Deuteronomy 6:16 forbids testing the Lord. John Chrysostom, in Homily 12 on Acts, says that no one was forced to give anything to the apostles, that Ananias and Sapphira had committed sacrilege by keeping the money they had promised to give, that Peter did not correct Ananias because he would