Quotes About Law

you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighborís wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.

But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.

Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.

If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,

then the man who lay with her must pay the young womanís father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.

A man is not to marry his fatherís wife, so that he will not dishonor his fatherís marriage bed.

No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.

If any man among you becomes unclean because of a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp and stay outside.

When evening approaches, he must wash with water, and when the sun sets he may return to the camp.

Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.

No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.

You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.

When you enter your neighborís vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.

When you enter your neighborís grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighborís grain.

If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.

and the second man hates her, writes her a certificate of divorce, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if he dies,

then the husband who divorced her first may not remarry her after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.

In cases of infectious skin diseases, be careful to diligently follow everything the Levitical priests instruct you. Be careful to do as I have commanded them.

Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widowís cloak as security.

If there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.

If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.

He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husbandís brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.