Quotes About Responsibility

Pagiel son of Ocran was over the division of the tribe of Asher,

Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ëCarry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,í to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

I cannot carry all these people by myself; it is too burdensome for me.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.

So the LORD said to Aaron, “You and your sons and your fatherís house must bear the iniquity involving the sanctuary. And you and your sons alone must bear the iniquity involving your priesthood.

They are to join you and attend to the duties of the Tent of Meeting, doing all the work at the Tent; but no outsider may come near you.

Once you have presented the best part of it, you will not incur guilt because of it. But you must not defile the sacred offerings of the Israelites, or else you will die.í”

“Take a census of the whole congregation of Israel by the houses of their fathers—all those twenty years of age or older who can serve in the army of Israel.”

If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his fatherís brothers.

who will go out and come in before them, and who will lead them out and bring them in, so that the congregation of the LORD will not be like sheep without a shepherd.”

Confer on him some of your authority, so that the whole congregation of Israel will obey him.

If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.

and her father hears about her vow or pledge but says nothing to her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

If a woman marries while under a vow or rash promise by which she has bound herself,

and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her on that day, then the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

Every vow a widow or divorced woman pledges to fulfill is binding on her.

If a woman in her husbandís house has made a vow or put herself under an obligation with an oath,

and her husband hears of it but says nothing to her and does not prohibit her, then all the vows or pledges by which she has bound herself shall stand.

Her husband may confirm or nullify any vow or any sworn pledge to deny herself.

But if her husband says nothing to her from day to day, then he confirms all the vows and pledges that bind her. He has confirmed them, because he said nothing to her on the day he heard about them.

But if he nullifies them after he hears of them, then he will bear her iniquity.”

But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.”

But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.