Quotes About Community

Then the young womanís father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate

Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.

she shall be brought to the door of her fatherís house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her fatherís house. So you must purge the evil from among you.

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.

No one of illegitimate birth may enter the assembly of the LORD, nor may any of his descendants, even to the tenth generation.

No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.

Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.

The third generation of children born to them 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.

You must have a place outside the camp to go and relieve yourself.

Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.

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

Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.

You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.

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.

Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking oneís livelihood as security.

When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.

You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.

If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;

Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.

You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

If you are harvesting in your field and forget a sheaf there, do not go back to get it. It is to be left for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.

When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.