Quotes about Responsibility
If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.
— Deuteronomy 22:1
If your brother does not live near you, or if you do not know who he is, you are to take the animal home to remain with you until your brother comes seeking it; then you can return it to him.
— Deuteronomy 22:2
And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
— Deuteronomy 22:3
If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.
— Deuteronomy 22:4
You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.
— Deuteronomy 22:7
If you build a new house, you are to construct a railing around your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if someone falls from it.
— Deuteronomy 22:8
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
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
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
And you must have a digging tool in your equipment so that when you relieve yourself you can dig a hole and cover up your excrement.
— Deuteronomy 23:13