Quotes about Justice
you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.
— Deuteronomy 17:5
On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but he shall not be executed on the testimony of a lone witness.
— Deuteronomy 17:6
The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.
— Deuteronomy 17:7
If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.
— Deuteronomy 17:8
You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of them, and they will give you a verdict in the case.
— Deuteronomy 17:9
according to the terms of law they give and the verdict they proclaim. Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from the decision they declare to you.
— Deuteronomy 17:11
But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
— Deuteronomy 17:12
They shall eat equal portions, even though he has received money from the sale of his father’s estate.
— Deuteronomy 18:8
then you are to set apart for yourselves three cities within the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.
— Deuteronomy 19:2
Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:
— Deuteronomy 19:4
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.
— Deuteronomy 19:5
Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the manslayer in a rage, overtake him if the distance is great, and strike him dead though he did not deserve to die, since he did not intend any harm.
— Deuteronomy 19:6