Quotes About Ethics

If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both must surely be put to death. They have acted perversely; their blood is upon them.

If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

If a man lies carnally with an animal, he must be put to death. And you are also to kill the animal.

If a woman approaches any animal to mate with it, you must kill both the woman and the animal. They must surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.

You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing oneís own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.

But you must not slaughter an ox or a sheep on the same day as its young.

And if a man takes the life of anyone else, he must surely be put to death.

Whoever kills an animal must make restitution—life for life.

If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:

Whoever kills an animal must make restitution, but whoever kills a man must be put to death.

If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.

Do not take any interest or profit from him, but fear your God, that your countryman may live among you.

You must not lend him your silver at interest or sell him your food for profit.

Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.

If, however, anyone strikes a person with an iron object and kills him, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

Or if anyone has in his hand a stone of deadly size, and he strikes and kills another, he is a murderer; the murderer must surely be put to death.

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.

Likewise, if anyone maliciously pushes another or intentionally throws an object at him and kills him,

You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.

You shall not murder.

You shall not steal.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

You shall not covet your neighborís wife. You shall not covet your neighborís house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

When you lay siege to a city for an extended time while fighting against it to capture it, you must not destroy its trees by putting an axe to them, because you can eat their fruit. You must not cut them down. Are the trees of the field human, that you should besiege them?