Quotes about Morality
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
If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,
— Deuteronomy 22:28
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
A man is not to marry his father’s wife, so that he will not dishonor his father’s marriage bed.
— Deuteronomy 22:30
When you are encamped against your enemies, then you shall keep yourself from every wicked thing.
— Deuteronomy 23:9
Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.
— Deuteronomy 23:15
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
— Deuteronomy 23:17
You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
— Deuteronomy 23:18
Do not charge your brother interest on money, food, or any other type of loan.
— Deuteronomy 23:19
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