Quotes About Community

you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.

Now if a Levite moves from any town of residence throughout Israel and comes in all earnestness to the place the LORD will choose,

then he shall serve in the name of the LORD his God like all his fellow Levites who stand there before the LORD.

They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his fatherís estate.

Then the LORD said to me, “They have spoken well.

This is why I am commanding you to set apart for yourselves three cities.

and if you carefully keep all these commandments I am giving you today, loving the LORD your God and walking in His ways at all times, then you are to add three more cities to these three.

A lone witness is not sufficient to establish any wrongdoing or sin against a man, regardless of what offense he may have committed. A matter must be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.

both parties to the dispute must stand in the presence of the LORD, before the priests and judges who are in office at that time.

you must do to him as he intended to do to his brother. So you must purge the evil from among you.

Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you.

This is how you are to treat all the cities that are far away from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.

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,

Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,

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

his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,

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 you see your brotherís ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.

If your brother does not live near you, or if you do not know who he is, you are to take the animal home to remain with you until your brother comes seeking it; then you can return it to him.

And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.

If you see your brotherís donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.

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.