Quotes About Law

If a descendant of Aaron has a skin disease or a discharge, he may not eat the sacred offerings until he is clean. Whoever touches anything defiled by a corpse or by a man who has an emission of semen,

or whoever touches a crawling creature or a person that makes him unclean, whatever the uncleanness may be—

the man who touches any of these will remain unclean until evening. He must not eat from the sacred offerings unless he has bathed himself with water.

He must not eat anything found dead or torn by wild animals, which would make him unclean. I am the LORD.

No one outside a priestís family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.

But if a priest buys a slave with his own money, or if a slave is born in his household, that slave may eat his food.

If the priestís daughter is married to a man other than a priest, she is not to eat of the sacred contributions.

If anyone eats a sacred offering in error, he must add a fifth to its value and give the sacred offering to the priest.

You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

You are not to present to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut; you are not to sacrifice them in your land.

Then the LORD said to Moses,

“When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as an offering made by fire to the LORD.

Then the LORD said to Moses,

You are not to do any work at all. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite.

The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name with a curse. So they brought him to Moses. (His motherís name was Shelomith daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.)

Then the LORD said to Moses,

“Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

Whoever blasphemes the name of the LORD must surely be put to death; the whole assembly must surely stone him, whether he is a foreign resident or native; if he blasphemes the Name, he must be put to death.

And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.

Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.

If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.