Quotes about Obligation
This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.
— Genesis 17:10
The young man, who was the most respected of all his father’s household, did not hesitate to fulfill this request, because he was delighted with Jacob’s daughter.
— Genesis 34:19
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
— Genesis 38:8
The taskmasters kept pressing them, saying, “Fulfill your quota each day, just as you did when straw was provided.”
— Exodus 5:13
And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants.
— Exodus 12:24
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
— Exodus 21:2
If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.
— Exodus 21:10
If, however, he does not provide her with these three things, she is free to go without monetary payment.
— Exodus 21:11
the owner of the pit shall make restitution; he must pay its owner, and the dead animal will be his.
— Exodus 21:34
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD.
— Exodus 23:17
“If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.
— Leviticus 5:1
And Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded you to do, so that the glory of the LORD may appear to you.”
— Leviticus 9:6