Quotes about Ethics
Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
— Deuteronomy 23:19
When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
— Deuteronomy 23:25
When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
— Deuteronomy 24:10
If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
— Deuteronomy 24:12
be sure to return it to him by sunset, so that he may sleep in his own cloak and bless you, and this will be credited to you as righteousness before the LORD your God.
— Deuteronomy 24:13
You are to pay his wages each day before sunset, because he is poor and depends on them. Otherwise he may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.
— Deuteronomy 24:15
Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin.
— Deuteronomy 24:16
Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
— Deuteronomy 25:4
If two men are fighting, and the wife of one steps in to rescue her husband from the one striking him, and she reaches out her hand and grabs his genitals,
— Deuteronomy 25:11
you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.
— Deuteronomy 25:12
You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
— Deuteronomy 25:13
You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.
— Deuteronomy 25:14