Quotes about Justice
“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:
- Exodus 21:1
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
- Exodus 21:2
then his master is to bring him before the judges. And he shall take him to the door or doorpost and pierce his ear with an awl. Then he shall serve his master for life.
- Exodus 21:6
And if a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as the menservants do.
- Exodus 21:7
If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master who had designated her for himself, he must allow her to be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, since he has broken faith with her.
- Exodus 21:8
If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.
- Exodus 21:10
If, however, he does not provide her with these three things, she is free to go without monetary payment.
- Exodus 21:11
Whoever strikes and kills a man must surely be put to death.
- Exodus 21:12
If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.
- Exodus 21:13
But if a man schemes and acts willfully against his neighbor to kill him, you must take him away from My altar to be put to death.
- Exodus 21:14
Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
- Exodus 21:15
Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.
- Exodus 21:16