Laws About Social Justice
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n "If a man entices a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall surely pay the bride-price for her to be his wife.
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"If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money according to the o bride-price of virgins.
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p "You shall not permit a sorceress to live.
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q "Whoever lies with an animal shall surely be put to death.
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r "He who sacrifices to any god, except to the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.
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s "You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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t "You shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.
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"If you afflict them in any way, and they u cry at all to Me, I will surely v hear their cry;
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"and My w wrath will become hot, and I will kill you with the sword; x your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
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y "If you lend money to any of My people who are poor among you, you shall not be like a moneylender to him; you shall not charge him z interest.
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a "If you ever take your neighbor's garment as a pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down.
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"For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin. What will he sleep in? And it will be that when he cries to Me, I will hear, for I am b gracious.
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c "You shall not revile God, nor curse a d ruler of your people.
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"You shall not delay to offer e the first of your ripe produce and your juices. f The firstborn of your sons you shall give to Me.
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g "Likewise you shall do with your oxen and your sheep. It shall be with its mother h seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.
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"And you shall be i holy men to Me: j you shall not eat meat torn by beasts in the field; you shall throw it to the dogs.
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"You a shall not circulate a false report. Do not put your hand with the wicked to be an b unrighteous witness.
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c "You shall not follow a crowd to do evil; d nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after many to pervert justice.
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"You shall not show partiality to a e poor man in his dispute.
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f "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.
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g "If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it.
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h "You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute.
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i "Keep yourself far from a false matter; j do not kill the innocent and righteous. For k I will not justify the wicked.
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"And l you shall take no bribe, for a bribe blinds the discerning and perverts the words of the righteous.
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"Also m you shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
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Deuteronomy 22:28
If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out.
Deuteronomy 22:29
Then the man who lay with her shall give to the young woman's father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife because he has humbled her; he shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days.
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Genesis 34:12
"Ask me ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according to what you say to me; but give me the young woman as a wife."
1 Samuel 18:25
Then Saul said, "Thus you shall say to David: 'The king does not desire any dowry but one hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to take vengeance on the king's enemies.' " But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
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Leviticus 19:31
Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits;...
Leviticus 20:6
And the person who turns to mediums and familia...
Leviticus 20:27
'A man or a woman who is a medium, or who has f...
Deuteronomy 18:10
There shall not be found among you anyone who m...
Deuteronomy 18:11
Or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a s...
1 Samuel 28:3 - 10
Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had lamente...
Jeremiah 27:9
'Therefore do not listen to your prophets, your...
Jeremiah 27:10
For they prophesy a lie to you, to remove you f...
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Leviticus 18:23
Nor shall you mate with any animal, to defile yourself with it. Nor shall any woman stand before an animal to mate with it. It is perversion.
Leviticus 20:15
If a man mates with an animal, he shall surely be put to death, and you shall kill the animal.
Leviticus 20:16
If a woman approaches any animal and mates with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood is upon them.
Deuteronomy 27:21
'Cursed is the one who lies with any kind of animal.' "And all the people shall say, 'Amen!'
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Exodus 32:8
"They have turned aside quickly out of the way ...
Exodus 34:15
Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants o...
Leviticus 17:7
"They shall no more offer their sacrifices to d...
Numbers 25:2
They invited the people to the sacrifices of th...
Deuteronomy 17:2
If there is found among you, within any of your...
Deuteronomy 17:3
Who has gone and served other gods and worshipe...
Deuteronomy 17:5
Then you shall bring out to your gates that man...
1 Kings 18:40
And Elijah said to them, "Seize the prophets of...
2 Kings 10:25
Now it happened, as soon as he had made an end ...
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Exodus 23:9
Also you shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Deuteronomy 10:19
Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Zechariah 7:10
Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, The alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart Against his brother.
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Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not pervert justice due the stranger ...
Deuteronomy 24:18
But you shall remember that you were a slave in...
Proverbs 23:10
Do not remove the ancient landmark, Nor enter t...
Proverbs 23:11
For their Redeemer is mighty; He will plead the...
Jeremiah 7:6
If you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherl...
Jeremiah 7:7
Then I will cause you to dwell in this place, i...
James 1:27
Pure and undefiled religion before God and the ...
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Luke 18:7
And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them?
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Deuteronomy 10:17
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who shows no partiality nor takes a bribe.
Deuteronomy 10:18
He administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing.
Psalms 18:6
In my distress I called upon the LORD, And cried out to my God; He heard my voice from His temple, And my cry came before Him, even to His ears.
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Psalms 69:24
Pour out Your indignation upon them, And let Your wrathful anger take hold of them.
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Psalms 109:9
Let his children be fatherless, And his wife a widow.
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Leviticus 25:35 - 37
If one of your brethren becomes poor, and falls into poverty among you, then you shall help him, like a stranger or a sojourner, that he may live with you.
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Deuteronomy 23:19
You shall not charge interest to your brother - interest on money or food or anything that is lent out at interest.
Deuteronomy 23:20
To a foreigner you may charge interest, but to your brother you shall not charge interest, that the LORD your God may bless you in all to which you set your hand in the land which you are entering to possess.
Nehemiah 5:1 - 13
And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their Jewish brethren.
Psalms 15:5
He who does not put out his money at usury, Nor does he take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be moved.
Ezekiel 18:8
If he has not exacted usury Nor taken any increase, But has withdrawn his hand from iniquity And executed true judgment between man and man.
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Deuteronomy 24:6
No man shall take the lower or the upper millstone in pledge, for he takes one's living in pledge.
Deuteronomy 24:10 - 13
When you lend your brother anything, you shall not go into his house to get his pledge.
Job 24:3
They drive away the donkey of the fatherless; They take the widow's ox as a pledge.
Proverbs 20:16
Take the garment of one who is surety for a stranger, And hold it as a pledge when it is for a seductress.
Amos 2:8
They lie down by every altar on clothes taken in pledge, And drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.
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Exodus 34:6
And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, "The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth.
Exodus 34:7
"keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation."
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Ecclesiastes 10:20
Do not curse the king, even in your thought; Do not curse the rich, even in your bedroom; For a bird of the air may carry your voice, And a bird in flight may tell the matter.
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Acts 23:5
Then Paul said, "I did not know, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written, 'You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.'
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Exodus 23:16
And the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in the fruit of your labors from the field.
Exodus 23:19
The first of the firstfruits of your land you shall bring into the house of the LORD your God. You shall not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Deuteronomy 26:2 - 11
That you shall take some of the first of all the produce of the ground, which you shall bring from your land that the LORD your God is giving you, and put it in a basket and go to the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide.
Proverbs 3:9
Honor the LORD with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase.
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Exodus 13:2
"Consecrate to Me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and beast; it is Mine."
Exodus 13:12
That you shall set apart to the LORD all that open the womb, that is, every firstborn that comes from an animal which you have; the males shall be the LORD's.
Exodus 13:15
'And it came to pass, when Pharaoh was stubborn about letting us go, that the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all males that open the womb, but all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.'
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Deuteronomy 15:19
All the firstborn males that come from your herd and your flock you shall sanctify to the LORD your God; you shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
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Leviticus 22:27
When a bull or a sheep or a goat is born, it shall be seven days with its mother; and from the eighth day and thereafter it shall be accepted as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
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Exodus 19:6
'And you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel."
Leviticus 11:44
For I am the LORD your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
Leviticus 19:2
Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them: 'You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy.
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Leviticus 7:24
And the fat of an animal that dies naturally, and the fat of what is torn by wild beasts, may be used in any other way; but you shall by no means eat it.
Leviticus 17:15
And every person who eats what died naturally or what was torn by beasts, whether he is a native of your own country or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes and bathe in water, and be unclean until evening. Then he shall be clean.
Ezekiel 4:14
So I said, "Ah, Lord GOD! Indeed I have never defiled myself from my youth till now; I have never eaten what died of itself or was torn by beasts, nor has abominable flesh ever come into my mouth.
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Exodus 20:16
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Leviticus 19:11
You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another.
Deuteronomy 5:20
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Psalms 101:5
Whoever secretly slanders his neighbor, Him I will destroy; The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart, Him I will not endure.
Proverbs 10:18
Whoever hides hatred has lying lips, And whoever spreads slander is a fool.
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Deuteronomy 19:16 - 21
If a false witness rises against any man to testify against him of wrongdoing.
Psalms 35:11
Fierce witnesses rise up; They ask me things that I do not know.
Proverbs 19:5
A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who speaks lies will not escape.
Acts 6:11
Then they secretly induced men to say, "We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God.
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Genesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, because I have seen that you are righteous before Me in this generation.
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Leviticus 19:15
You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.
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Exodus 23:6
You shall not pervert the judgment of your poor in his dispute.
Leviticus 19:15
You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty. In righteousness you shall judge your neighbor.
Deuteronomy 1:17
'You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small as well as the great; you shall not be afraid in any man's presence, for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.'
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice; you shall not show partiality, nor take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and twists the words of the righteous.
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Romans 12:20
Therefore "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; If he is thirsty, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.
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Deuteronomy 22:4
You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fall down along the road, and hide yourself from them; you shall surely help him lift them up again.
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Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent perversion of justice and righteousness in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for high official watches over high official, and higher officials are over them.
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Exodus 20:16
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Psalms 119:29
Remove from me the way of lying, And grant me Your law graciously.
Ephesians 4:25
Therefore, putting away lying, "Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor," for we are members of one another.
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Matthew 27:4
Saying, "I have sinned by betraying innocent blood." And they said, "What is that to us? You see to it!
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Exodus 34:7
"keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children to the third and the fourth generation."
Deuteronomy 25:1
If there is a dispute between men, and they come to court, that the judges may judge them, and they justify the righteous and condemn the wicked.
Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.
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Deuteronomy 10:17
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord o...
Deuteronomy 16:19
You shall not pervert justice; you shall not sh...
Proverbs 15:27
He who is greedy for gain troubles his own hous...
Proverbs 17:8
A present is a precious stone in the eyes of it...
Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man accepts a bribe behind the back To...
Isaiah 5:22
Woe to men mighty at drinking wine, Woe to men ...
Isaiah 5:23
Who justify the wicked for a bribe, And take aw...
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Exodus 22:21
You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:33
And if a stranger dwells with you in your land, you shall not mistreat him.
Deuteronomy 24:17
You shall not pervert justice due the stranger or the fatherless, nor take a widow's garment as a pledge.
Deuteronomy 27:19
'Cursed is the one who perverts the justice due the stranger, the fatherless, and widow.' "And all the people shall say, 'Amen!'
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