Quotes About Tradition

This is what the LORD has commanded concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: They may marry anyone they please, provided they marry within a clan of the tribe of their father.

No inheritance in Israel may be transferred from tribe to tribe, because each of the Israelites is to retain the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

Every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any Israelite tribe must marry within a clan of the tribe of her father, so that every Israelite will possess the inheritance of his fathers.

No inheritance may be transferred from one tribe to another, for each tribe of Israel must retain its inheritance.”

Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to cousins on their fatherís side.

which the Sidonians call Sirion but the Amorites call Senir—

Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that your days may be long and that it may go well with you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.

Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates.

Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the LORD our God has commanded you?”

Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,

Teach them to your children, speaking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Write them on the doorposts of your houses and on your gates,

Do not eat it, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, because you will be doing what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

be careful not to be ensnared by their ways after they have been destroyed before you. Do not inquire about their gods, asking, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”

You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

You are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,

These are the animals that you may eat: The ox, the sheep, the goat,

You may eat any animal that has a split hoof divided in two and that chews the cud.

as well as the pig; though it has a divided hoof, it does not chew the cud. It is unclean for you. You must not eat its meat or touch its carcass.

You may eat any clean bird,

but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,