Quotes About Morality

Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”

So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our fatherís line.”

So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.

Thus both of Lotís daughters became pregnant by their father.

One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”

Early the next morning Abimelech got up and summoned all his servants; and when he described to them all that had happened, the men were terrified.

When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the region, saw her, he took her and lay with her by force.

But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”

But Er, Judahís firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; so the LORD put him to death.

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.

What he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, so He put Onan to death as well.

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute because she had covered her face.

Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.

He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.

About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”

and after some time his masterís wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”

But he refused. “Look,” he said to his masterís wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.

No one in this house is greater than I am. He has withheld nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. So how could I do such a great evil and sin against God?”

Although Potipharís wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.

She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.

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.

The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live.

So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”