Quotes About Tradition

Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his fatherís strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.

If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,

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,

A woman must not wear menís clothing, and a man must not wear womenís clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.

Do not wear clothes of wool and linen woven together.

You are to make tassels on the four corners of the cloak you wear.

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

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.

A man is not to marry his fatherís wife, so that he will not dishonor his fatherís marriage bed.

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

When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husbandís brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.

The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

But if the man does not want to marry his brotherís widow, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, “My husbandís brother refuses to preserve his brotherís name in Israel. He is not willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.”

Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,”

his brotherís widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brotherís line.”

And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”

And you shall write distinctly upon these stones all the words of this law.”

Then the Levites shall proclaim in a loud voice to every Israelite:

ëCursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

You saw the abominations and idols among them made of wood and stone, of silver and gold.

So Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and to all the elders of Israel.

So that very day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites.

When Moses had finished writing in a book the words of this law from beginning to end,

Then Moses recited aloud to the whole assembly of Israel the words of this song from beginning to end: