Quotes About Consequences

They had not gone far from the city when Joseph told his steward, “Pursue the men at once, and when you overtake them, ask, ëWhy have you repaid good with evil?

If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”

“As you say,” replied the steward. “But only the one who is found with the cup will be my slave, and the rest of you shall be free of blame.”

Uncontrolled as the waters, you will no longer excel, because you went up to your fatherís bed, onto my couch, and defiled it.

May I never enter their council; may I never join their assembly. For they kill men in their anger, and hamstring oxen on a whim.

After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.

Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.

They were piled into countless heaps, and there was a terrible stench in the land.

But if you will not let My people go, I will send swarms of flies upon you and your officials and your people and your houses. The houses of the Egyptians and even the ground where they stand will be full of flies.

then the hand of the LORD will bring a severe plague on your livestock in the field—on your horses, donkeys, camels, herds, and flocks.

but those who disregarded the word of the LORD left their servants and livestock in the field.

But as for you and your officials, I know that you still do not fear the LORD our God.”

But they did not listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it became infested with maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.

And you are to set up a boundary for the people around the mountain and tell them, ëBe careful not to go up on the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain shall surely be put to death.

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.

If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

But if the ox has a habit of goring, and its owner has been warned yet does not restrain it, and it kills a man or woman, then the ox must be stoned and its owner must also be put to death.

If payment is demanded of him instead, he may redeem his life by paying the full amount demanded of him.

If the ox gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.

If a man opens or digs a pit and fails to cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,

But if it was known that the ox had a habit of goring, yet its owner failed to restrain it, he shall pay full compensation, ox for ox, and the dead animal will be his.

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.

If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.