Quotes About Morality

You shall not murder.

You shall not commit adultery.

You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You shall not covet your neighborís house. You shall not covet your neighborís wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:

If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with her.

Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.

But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.

Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.

Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.

Anyone who curses his father or mother must surely be put to death.

If men are quarreling and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,

If a man strikes his manservant or maidservant with a rod, and the servant dies by his hand, he shall surely be punished.

But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life—

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

burn for burn, wound for wound, and stripe for stripe.

If a man strikes and blinds the eye of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

And if he knocks out the tooth of his manservant or maidservant, he must let the servant go free as compensation for the tooth.

If the ox gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule.

“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters or sells it, he must repay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.

If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.

But if it happens after sunrise, there is guilt for his bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution; if he has nothing, he himself shall be sold for his theft.

If what was stolen is actually found alive in his possession—whether ox or donkey or sheep—he must pay back double.