Quotes about Law
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
If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,
— Deuteronomy 22:20
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
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
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
— Deuteronomy 23:17