Quotes About Law

The judges shall investigate thoroughly, and if the witness is proven to be a liar who has falsely accused his brother,

You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.

If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,

your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.

Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,

bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.

and they shall declare, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.

if you see a beautiful woman among them, and you desire her and want to take her as your wife,

then you shall bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,

and put aside the clothing of her captivity. After she has lived in your house a full month and mourned her father and mother, you may have relations with her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.

Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under Godís curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

A woman must not wear menís clothing, and a man must not wear womenís clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.

Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.”

Then the young womanís father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate

Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.

They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young womanís father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young womanís virginity can be found,

she shall be brought to the door of her fatherís house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her fatherís house. So you must purge the evil from among you.

If a man is found lying with another manís wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,