Quotes about Equality

If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

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

You may leave them to your sons after you to inherit as property; you can make them slaves for life. But as for your brothers, the Israelites, no man may rule harshly over his brother.

He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

The husband will be free from guilt, but the woman shall bear her iniquity.”

The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.

The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”

You shall have the same law for the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.

They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”

Now Zelophehad son of Hepher had no sons but only daughters. The names of his daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.

Increase the inheritance for a large tribe and decrease it for a small one; each tribe is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those registered.

Why should the name of our father disappear from his clan because he had no sons? Give us property among our father’s brothers.”