While Leviticus 20:13 explicitly calls for death, it does not specify the method. However, based on the broader context of the Mosaic Law, capital punishment was often carried out by stoning.
- Context of stoning: Stoning was the prescribed penalty for many serious violations of divine law, including idolatry and blasphemy. When the text commanded that "the people of the land shall stone him" for another offense in Leviticus 20, it established stoning as a form of communal execution for offenses that brought moral contamination upon the people.