Quotes about Justice
your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.
- Deuteronomy 21:2
Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,
- Deuteronomy 21:3
and they shall declare, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.
- Deuteronomy 21:7
Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.
- Deuteronomy 21:8
So you shall purge from among you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 21:9
And if you are not pleased with her, you are to let her go wherever she wishes. But you must not sell her for money or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her.
- Deuteronomy 21:14
his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
- Deuteronomy 21:19
Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.
- Deuteronomy 21:21
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
- Deuteronomy 21:22
Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.
- Deuteronomy 22:18
They are also to fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given a virgin of Israel a bad name. And she shall remain his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.
- Deuteronomy 22:19
If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,
- Deuteronomy 22:20