Here is a simplified breakdown based on Milgrom, Leviticus 1-16, Anchor Bible, 458: Offenses range from those which seem relatively minor (eating leaven during Passover week) to major (sacrificing children to Molech). Jacob Milgrom categorizes and lists all the crimes in Torah that result in being cut off. What is all this about? What things in Torah bring such a penalty? Is there any hope of forgiveness and release from such a penalty?
While we’re throwing around fancy words, another way to talk about being cut off is excision. What does it mean to be “cut off” from the people? A technical word for this is extirpation. The first reference is Genesis 17:14, “Any uncircumcised male who is not circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin shall be cut off from his people he has broken my covenant.”
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