profaning the Sabbath.44 No sacrificial atonement is even considered for the man; he is instead stoned to death. All three observations indicate that the pericope is underscoring the extreme danger of high-handed sin. Given this focus, why mention only two categories of sin, not three? At least two different but complementary reasons suggest themselves. First, to make the contrast between the first and third categories—and especially the danger of the third—all the greater. Black looks blacker when