The link offers " chapter and verse on a more-or-less comprehensive list of things banned in the Leviticus book of the bible. A decent number of them are punishable by death."
Below are just those that I'm pretty sure most people have done (including me?)
3. Eating fat (3:17)
7. Touching an unclean animal (5:2)
12. Letting your hair become unkempt (10:6)
13. Tearing your clothes (10:6)
14. Drinking alcohol in holy places (10:9)
15. Eating an animal which doesn’t both chew cud and has a divided hoof (cf: camel, rabbit, pig) (11:4-7)
16. Touching the carcass of any of the above (problems here for rugby) (11:8)
17. Eating – or touching the carcass of – any seafood without fins or scales (11:10-12)
36. Having sex with a woman during her period (18:19)
44. Stealing (19:11)
45. Lying (19:11)
51. Spreading slander (19:16)
53. Seeking revenge or bearing a grudge (19:18)
54. Mixing fabrics in clothing (19:19)
59. Practising divination or seeking omens (tut, tut astrology) (19:26)
60. Trimming your beard (19:27)
61. Cutting your hair at the sides (19:27)
65. Not standing in the presence of the elderly (19:32)
72. Working on the Sabbath (23:3)
75. Selling land permanently (25:23)
Some of most ironic ones for fundamentalists in the USA:
59. Practising divination or seeking omens (tut, tut astrology) (19:26)
62. Getting tattoos (19:28)
64. Turning to mediums or spiritualists (19:31)
66. Mistreating foreigners – “the foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born” (19:33-34)
68. Cursing your father or mother (punishable by death) (20:9)
73. Blasphemy (punishable by stoning to death) (24:14)
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