Quotes About Responsibility

Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”

Our children, our wives, our livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of Gilead.

But if they do not arm themselves and go across with you, then they must accept their possession among you in the land of Canaan.”

Appoint one leader from each tribe to distribute the land.

If anyone has in his hand a deadly object of wood, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

But if anyone pushes a person suddenly, without hostility, or throws an object at him unintentionally,

or without looking drops a heavy stone that kills him, but he was not an enemy and did not intend to harm him,

This will be a statutory ordinance for you for the generations to come, wherever you live.

Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

Do not defile the land where you live and where I dwell. For I, the LORD, dwell among the Israelites.”

At that time I said to you, “I cannot carry the burden for you alone.

But how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?

And at that time I commanded you all the things you were to do.

But your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—may remain in the cities I have given you,

Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,

and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied,

and be careful not to neglect the Levites as long as you live in your land.

You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.

You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.

And when you release him, do not send him away empty-handed.

If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.

Thus innocent blood will not be shed in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that you will not be guilty of bloodshed.

Furthermore, the officers are to address the army, saying, “Has any man built a new house and not dedicated it? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man dedicate it.

When the officers have finished addressing the army, they are to appoint commanders to lead it.