Quotes About Duty

Jack Grace told his son that to be a police officer meant that you looked at the world differently from everyone else. You were part of a healthy culture of suspicion, he'd called it.

So the servant placed his hand under the thigh of his master Abraham and swore an oath to him concerning this matter.

And Laban gave his servant girl Zilpah to his daughter Leah as her maidservant.

Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brotherís wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”

But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brotherís wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.

When Pharaoh summons you and asks, ëWhat is your occupation?í

“You are slackers!” Pharaoh replied. “Slackers! That is why you keep saying, ëLet us go and sacrifice to the LORD.í

And if he chooses her for his son, he must deal with her as with a daughter.

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

The number of all the males a month old or more was 8,600. They were responsible for the duties of the sanctuary.

Then they shall wrap it and all its utensils inside a covering of fine leather and put it on the carrying frame.

When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy objects and all their equipment, as soon as the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites shall come and do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy objects, or they will die. These are the transportation duties of the Kohathites regarding the Tent of Meeting.

This is the duty for all their service at the Tent of Meeting: to carry the frames of the tabernacle with its crossbars, posts, and bases,

But at the age of fifty, they must retire from performing the work and no longer serve.

Has any man become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man marry her.”

If a man is newly married, he must not be sent to war or be pressed into any duty. For one year he is free to stay at home and bring joy to the wife he has married.

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.

But if the man does not want to marry his brotherís widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husbandís brother refuses to preserve his brotherís name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”

They continued, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation.” So the leaders kept their promise.

He said, “This will be the manner of the king who will reign over you: He will take your sons and appoint them to his own chariots and horses, to run in front of his chariots.

He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves.

Saul said to the troops who were with him, “Call the roll and see who has left us.” And when they had called the roll, they saw that Jonathan and his armor-bearer were not there.

As surely as the LORD who saves Israel lives, even if it is my son Jonathan, he must die!” But not one of the troops said a word.