Quotes About Responsibility

When a leader sins unintentionally and does what is prohibited by any of the commandments of the LORD his God, he incurs guilt.

“If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.

Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil—in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty in the matter.

Moses summoned Mishael and Elzaphan, sons of Aaronís uncle Uzziel, and said to them, “Come here; carry the bodies of your cousins outside the camp, away from the front of the sanctuary.”

Later, Moses searched carefully for the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaronís remaining sons, and asked,

But if he does not wash his clothes and bathe himself, then he shall bear his iniquity.”

When you reap the harvest of your land, you are not to reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.

You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.

You must not curse the deaf or place a stumbling block before the blind, but you shall fear your God. I am the LORD.

If a man lies carnally with a slave girl promised to another man but who has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment. But they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

You must not defile your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will be prostituted and filled with depravity.

or his unmarried sister who is near to him, since she has no husband.

The priest who is highest among his brothers, who has had the anointing oil poured on his head and has been ordained to wear the priestly garments, must not let his hair hang loose or tear his garments.

The priests must keep My charge, lest they bear the guilt and die because they profane it. I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

Thus for every piece of property you possess, you must provide for the redemption of the land.

If your brother becomes impoverished and sells some of his property, his nearest of kin may come and redeem what his brother has sold.

Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,

If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.

If many years remain, he must pay for his redemption in proportion to his purchase price.

and if you reject My statutes, despise My ordinances, and neglect to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

But if he who consecrated his house redeems it, he must add a fifth to the assessed value, and it will belong to him.

If a man wishes to redeem part of his tithe, he must add a fifth to its value.

You and Aaron are to number those who are twenty years of age or older by their divisions—everyone who can serve in Israelís army.