Death by burning was issued for ten offenses, including prostitution and bigamous relations with one's wife and their mother. Perpetrators were not burnt at the stake, but rather molten lead was poured down the perpetrator's esophagus. Alternatively, the burning was inflicted after the perpetrator had been stoned, a precedent that was established in Achan's stoning. Death by the sword was issued in two cases: for wanton murder and for communal apostasy (idolatry). The perpetrators of these crimes were beheaded. Death by stoning was issued for the transgression of one of eighteen crimes, among which being those who wantonly transgressed the Sabbath-day by breaking its laws (excluding those who may have broken the Sabbath laws unintentionally), as well as a male who had a licentious connexion with another male. Stoning was administered by pushing the bound, convicted criminal over the side of a building, so that he fell down and died upon impact with the ground. Death by strangulation was the punishment for six crimes, among which being a man who had a forbidden connexion with another man's wife (adultery), and a person who willfully caused injury (bruise) to one of his parents.