Quotes about Justice
she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her father’s house. So you must purge the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 22:21
If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 22:22
If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,
- Deuteronomy 22:23
you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighbor’s wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 22:24
But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.
- Deuteronomy 22:25
Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
- Deuteronomy 22:26
then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.
- Deuteronomy 22:29
Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.
- Deuteronomy 23:15
Do not take a pair of millstones or even an upper millstone as security for a debt, because that would be taking one’s livelihood as security.
- Deuteronomy 24:6
You are to stand outside while the man to whom you are lending brings the security out to you.
- Deuteronomy 24:11
If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
- Deuteronomy 24:12
Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
- Deuteronomy 24:14