THE END TIMES

Prophesies Pertaining To Our Days

Words To Live By

     “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

  Matthew 11:28-30 (NIV)

     One day, I was given the opportunity to speak to a Christian couple about my message, concerning these last days and the need of repentance.  I was sharing the message of the apostle, James, the necessity of works and faith.  During our conversation, I learned that they believed they would experience the rapture, before the tribulation took place.  When I tried to explain to them the Word of God, and how they, like so many other people have been misled; they became defensive and opposed me.  The woman said that she was still just learning how to walk and my message was too firm.  She said that one day, she might be as strong as I was; but for now, she felt as though she had to learn a little at a time. This is not the first time that I have been told that my message is too strong.  When I am given an opportunity to speak, I feel an overwhelming passion to say as much as possible, as quickly as I can; because in most cases, I am only given a few minutes to speak.  If my message is strong, it is because the threat is real and the danger is great.  If I was walking by a burning building and you were inside asleep; would you want me to quietly whisper, “Wake up, your building is on fire?”  Or would you want me to shout, “WAKE UP!” I have not been given the ability to pull anyone from the flames; however, if I could teach you about the danger of fire and tell you how to extinguish the flames, would not you want to learn? Once I made the commitment, it took me twenty five years to learn how to walk according to the way.  We do not have that much time before the Anti-Christ attempts to usurp power over the entire world, and I do not have enough time to coddle or pacify anyone.  Therefore, if the Lord is willing to use me and I am able to serve him, with your best interest at heart; please take advantage of this opportunity and learn through my mistakes.  Perhaps you may be able to avoid many of the same mistakes, trials, and heartaches that I have endured to get where I am.  Please take advantage of this knowledge and learn how to repent as quickly as you can.

     The gentiles have had possession of the Word of God for fifteen hundred years.  We have all possessed six thousand years of history, of those who have or have not walked with the Lord.  We have had countless of examples given to us of those who were blessed and those who were cursed, because they did or did not fear the Lord.  How much more time do you think that the Lord should be willing to give us, and when does the Lord determine that enough is enough?  We have received more knowledge and more mercy than those who lived during the age of Noah, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the people of Nineveh.  The people of Sodom had not been given any warning and the people of Nineveh had only one messenger.  We have had prophets, apostles, teachers, and the Lord himself; telling us to repent!  All of the prophesies that have been foretold throughout the ages, about the tribulation, are about to be fulfilled in our lifetime, and it is time to repent!

     A common misconception is that there are too many laws in the Word of God, to understand and obey.  I think that people look at the entire Word of God and they think, “I have to learn all of this!"  However, most of the Word of God contains history, stories, poems, parables, and songs.  All of the Laws of Moses are contained in only four books; Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.  Also, not all of the laws pertain to everyone.  Some of the laws pertain to the temple service, the priesthood, and sacrifices. Some of the laws pertain to the judicial system.  And some of the laws pertain to men or women.  The Laws of Moses are not as complicated as one might believe, and they are not as difficult to observe as you may think.

     There are only two primary commandments to remember:

     “The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this:  ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.  Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

     The second is this:  ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.  There is no commandment greater than these.”

  Mark 12:29-31 (NIV)

     

     There are only Ten Commandments:

     I the Lord am your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, the house of bondage:  You shall have no other gods beside Me.

     You shall not make for yourself a sculptured image, or any likeness of what is in the heavens above, or on the earth below, or in the waters under the earth.  You shall not bow down to them or serve them.  For I the Lord your God am an impassioned God, visiting the guilt of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generations of those who reject Me, but showing kindness to the thousandth generation of those who love Me and keep My commandments.

     You shall not swear falsely by the name of the Lord your God; for the Lord will not clear one who swears falsely by His name.

     Remember the sabbath day and keep it holy.  Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God:  you shall not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, or your cattle, or the stranger who is within your settlements. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.

     Honor your father and your mother, that you may long endure on the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

     You shall not murder.  You shall not commit adultery.  You shall not steal.

     You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

     You shall not covet your neighbor’s house:  you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female slave, or his ox or his ass, or anything that is your neighbor’s.

         Exodus 20:2-14 (Torah)

     According to the Jewish Rabbi's and the teachers of the law, there are 613 laws contained in the Laws of Moses; however, they do not all apply to everyone, as I have previously mentioned.  They also believe in an oral teaching of the law, which is a multitude of laws that have since been added to the Laws of Moses.  They justify this by leading us to believe that during the time that Moses was on Mount Sinai, he received many additional laws.  However, Moses did not have time to record all of them before the Lord took his life. This is wrong.  Moses was faithful to the Lord and to the children of Israel, and he had thirty-eight years to teach these laws, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness.  If Moses had not completed his task, then the Lord would

not have taken his life, when he did.  The laws that have since been added to the Laws of Moses were created by the imagination of men or inspired by another spirit.  Time after time:  Moses, Joshua, and the remaining prophets; warned the children of Israel not to add to the law or to remove any portion therein.  The first and second temples were destroyed because they did just that.  The children of Israel disobeyed the law and were punished, because they forsook the Laws of Moses, and began following the laws and traditions of

men.   All three monotheistic faiths have fallen away from the Lord, for this reason.  Please keep in mind that the Lord never gave us the authority to add to, alter, or abolish the law.

     The remaining portion of this chapter contains a partial list of the law, created for the individual and their household, so that if they have a desire to walk according to the way of the Lord―they may; however, please do not think that this is a substitute for studying the Word of God and learning all of the laws on your own.  This is only a means to help you, if you would like to purge yourself and your home as soon as possible.  I have omitted the laws that concern the temple service, because the priesthood is inactive at this time.  I have omitted the laws previously mentioned in this chapter in order to avoid redundancy, and because I have already included the laws that pertain to the holy days in the chapter, “Holy and unholy Days,” I have omitted them as well. Although the laws pertaining to capital offenses have been outlawed in most countries, except for extreme circumstances; I have included most of them here, so that one might appreciate the severity of the crime, and take these laws to heart.

The Laws Of Admittance Into The Congregation

Please review Isaiah 56:1-7 or read the chapter in this book, “An Exception To The Rule,” when studying the next three laws.

 

     No one whose testes are crushed or whose member is cut off shall be admitted into the congregation of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 23:2 (Torah)

     No one *misbegotten shall be admitted into the congregation of the LORD; none of his descendants, even in the tenth generation, shall be admitted into the congregation of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 23:3 (Torah)

*Illegitimate

     No Ammonite or Moabite shall be admitted into the congregation of the LORD; none of their descendants, even in the tenth generation, shall ever be admitted into the congregation of the LORD, because they did not meet you with food and water on your journey after you left Egypt, and because they hired Balaam son of Beor, from Pethor of Aram-naharaim, to curse you.―But the LORD your God refused to heed Balaam; instead, the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, for the LORD your God loves you.―You shall never concern yourself with their welfare or benefit as long as you live.

 Deuteronomy 23:4-7 (Torah)

     You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your kinsman.  You shall not abhor an Egyptian, for you were a stranger in his land. Children born to them may be admitted into the congregation of the LORD in the third generation.

Deuteronomy 23:8-9 (Torah)

The Laws Pertaining To Agriculture

     When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field, or gather the gleanings of your harvest. You shall not pick your vineyard bare, or gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger:  I the LORD am your God.

Leviticus 19:9-10 (Torah)

     ... You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; …

Leviticus 19:19 (Torah)

     When you enter the land and plant any tree for food, you shall regard its fruit as forbidden.  Three years it shall be forbidden for you, not to be eaten.  In the fourth year all its fruit shall be set aside for jubilation before the LORD; and only in the fifth year may you use its fruit―that its yield to you may be increased:  I the LORD am your God.

Leviticus 19:23-25 (Torah)

     You shall not sow your vineyard with a second kind of seed, else the crop―from the seed you have sown―and the yield of the vineyard may not be used.

Deuteronomy 22:9 (Torah)

     You shall not plow with an ox and an ass together.

Deuteronomy 22:10 (Torah)

     When you reap the harvest in your field and overlook a sheaf in the field, do not turn back to get it; it shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow―in order that the LORD your God may bless you in all your undertakings.  When you beat down the fruit of your olive trees, do not go over them again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow.  When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, do not pick it over again; that shall go to the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. Always remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore do I enjoin you to observe this commandment.

Deuteronomy 24:19-22 (Torah)

Additionally:  Exodus 22: 4-5, Deuteronomy 20:19-20 and 23:25-26.

The Laws Pertaining To Animal Husbandry

     When you encounter your enemy’s ox or ass wandering, you must take it back to him.

Exodus 23:4 (Torah)

     When you see the ass of your enemy lying under its burden and would refrain from raising it, you must nevertheless raise it with him.

 Exodus 23:5 (Torah)

    ... You shall not let your cattle mate with a different kind; …

Leviticus 19:19 (Torah)

     However, no animal from the herd or from the flock shall be slaughtered on the same day with its young.

Leviticus 22:28 (Torah)

     You shall not muzzle an ox while it is threshing.

 Deuteronomy 25:4 (Torah)

Additionally:  Exodus 21:28-22:4, 22:9-14, and Deuteronomy 22:1-4.

     

The Laws Pertaining To Apparel

     ... you shall not put on cloth from a mixture of two kinds of material.

Leviticus 19:19 (Torah)

     Speak to the Israelite people and instruct them to make for themselves fringes on the corners of their garments throughout the ages; let them attach a cord of blue to the fringe at each corner.  That shall be your fringe; look at it and recall all the commandments of the LORD and observe them, so that you do not follow your heart and eyes in your lustful urge.  Thus you shall be reminded to observe all My commandments and to be holy to your God.

Numbers 15:38-40 (Torah)

     A woman must not put on man’s apparel, nor shall a man wear woman’s clothing; for whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 22:5 (Torah)

     You shall not wear cloth combining wool and linen.

Deuteronomy 22:11 (Torah)

The Laws Pertaining To Business Practices

     If you lend money to My people, to the poor among you, do not act toward them as a creditor; exact no interest from them.

Exodus 22:24 (Torah)

     If you take your neighbor’s garment in pledge, you must return it to him before the sun sets; it is his only clothing, the sole covering for his skin.  In what else shall he sleep?  Therefore, if he cries out to Me, I will pay heed, for I am compassionate.

Exodus 22:25-26 (Torah)

     ... you shall not deal deceitfully or falsely with one another.

Leviticus 19:11 (Torah)

     You shall not defraud your fellow.  You shall not commit robbery.  The wages of a laborer shall not remain with you until morning.

Leviticus 19:13 (Torah)

      You shall not falsify measures of length, weight or capacity.  You shall have an honest balance, honest weights, an honest ephah, and an honest hin. ...

Leviticus 19:35-36 (Torah)

     If your kinsman, being in straits, comes under your authority, and you hold him as though a resident alien, let him live by your side:  do not exact from him advance or accrued interest, but fear your God.  Let him live by your side as your kinsman. Do not lend him your money at advance interest, or give him your food at accrued interest.

Leviticus 25:35-37 (Torah)

     If your kinsman under you continues in straits and must give himself over to you, do not subject him to the treatment of a slave.  He shall remain with you as a hired or bound laborer; … You shall not rule over him ruthlessly; you shall fear your God.

Leviticus 25:39-43 (Torah)

    

     You may dun the foreigner; but you must remit whatever is due you from your kinsmen.

Deuteronomy 15:3 (Torah)

 

     You shall not deduct interest from loans to your countrymen, whether in money or food or anything else that can be deducted as interest: but you may deduct interest from loans to foreigners.  Do not deduct interest from loans to your countrymen, so that the LORD your God may bless you in all your undertakings in the land that you are about to enter and possess.

Deuteronomy 23:20-21 (Torah)

     A handmill or an upper millstone shall not be taken in pawn, for that would be taking someone’s life in pawn.

Deuteronomy 24:6 (Torah)

     When you make a loan of any sort to your countryman, you must not enter his house to seize his pledge.  You must remain outside, while the man to whom you made the loan brings the pledge out to you.  If he is a needy man, you shall not go to sleep in his pledge; you must return the pledge to him at sundown, that he may sleep in his cloth and bless you; and it will be to your merit before the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 24:10-13 (Torah)

     You shall not abuse a needy and destitute laborer, whether a fellow countryman or a stranger in one of the communities of your land.  You must pay him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets, for he is needy and urgently depends on it; else he will cry to the LORD against you and you will incur guilt.

Deuteronomy 24:14-15 (Torah)

     … you shall not take a widow’s garment in pawn.

Deuteronomy 24:17 (Torah)

     You shall not have in your pouch alternate weights, larger and smaller.  You shall not have in your house alternate measures, a larger and a smaller.  You must have completely honest weights and completely honest measures, if you are to endure long on the soil that the LORD your God is giving you.  For everyone who does those things, everyone who deals dishonestly, is abhorrent to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 25:13-16 (Torah)

The Laws Pertaining To The Covenant Of Circumcision

     God further said to Abraham, “As for you, you and your offspring to come throughout the ages shall keep My covenant. Such shall be the covenant between Me and you and your offspring to follow which you shall keep:  every male among you shall be circumcised.  You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and that shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you.  And throughout the generations, every male among you shall be circumcised at the age of eight days.  As for the homeborn slave and the one bought from an outsider who is not of your offspring, they must be circumcised, homeborn, and purchased alike.  Thus shall My covenant be marked in your flesh as an everlasting pact.  And if any male who is uncircumcised fails to circumcise the flesh of his foreskin, that person shall be cut off from his kin; he has broken My covenant.”

Genesis 17:9-14 (Torah)

The Laws Pertaining To Diet

     You shall be holy people to Me:  you must not eat flesh torn by beasts in the field; you shall cast it to the dogs.

Exodus 22:30 (Torah)

     ... You shall not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

Exodus 23:19 (Torah)

     … All fat is the LORD’s.  It is a law for all time throughout the ages, in all your settlements:  you must not eat any fat or any blood.

Leviticus 3:16-17 (Torah)

     ... You shall eat no fat of ox or sheep or goat.  Fat from animals that died or were torn by beast may be put to any use, but you must not eat it.  

Leviticus 7:23-24 (Torah)

     The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying to them:  Speak to the Israelite people thus:  

     These are the creatures that you may eat from among all the land animals:  any animal that has true hoofs, with clefts through the hoofs, and that chews the cud―such you may eat.  The following, however, of those that either chew the cud or have true hoofs, you shall not eat:  the camel―although it chews the cud, it has no true hoofs:  it is unclean for you; the daman―although it chews the cud, it has no true hoofs:  it is unclean for you; the hare―although it chews the cud, it has no true hoofs:  it is unclean for you; and the swine―although it has true hoofs, with the hoofs cleft through, it does not chew the cud:  it is unclean for you.  You shall not eat of their flesh or touch their carcasses; they are unclean for you.

     These you may eat of all that live in water:  anything in water, whether in the seas or in the streams, that has fins and scales―these you may eat.  But anything in the seas or in the streams that has no fins and scales, among all the swarming things of the water and among all the other living creatures that are in the water―they are an abomination for you and an abomination for you they shall remain:  you shall not eat of their flesh and you shall abominate their carcasses.  Everything in water that has no fins and scales shall be an abomination for you.

     The following you shall abominate among the birds―they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination:  the eagle, the vulture, and the black vulture; the kite, falcons of every variety; all varieties of raven; the ostrich, the night hawk, the sea gull; hawks of every variety; the little owl, the cormorant, and the great owl; the white owl, the pelican, and the bustard; the stork; herons of every variety; the hoopoe, and the bat.

     All winged swarming things that walk on fours shall be an abomination for you.  But these you may eat among all the winged swarming things that walk on fours:  all that have, above their feet jointed legs to leap with on the ground―of these you may eat the following:  locusts of every variety; all varieties of bald locust; crickets of every variety; and all varieties of grasshopper.  But all other winged swarming things that have four legs shall be an abomination for you.

Leviticus 11:1-23 (Torah)

     All the things that swarm upon the earth are an abomination; they shall not be eaten. You shall not eat, among all things that swarm upon the earth, anything that crawls on its belly, or anything that walks on fours, or anything that has many legs; for they are an abomination.  

Leviticus 11:41-42 (Torah)

     And if anyone of the house of Israel or of the strangers who reside among them partakes of any blood, I will set My face against the person who partakes of the blood, and I will cut him off from among his kin.  For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have assigned it to you for making expiation for your lives upon the altar; it is the blood, as life, that effects expiation.  Therefore I say to the Israelite people:  No person among you shall partake of blood, nor shall the stranger who resides among you partake of blood.

Leviticus 17:10-12 (Torah)

     And if any Israelite or any stranger who resides among them hunts down an animal or a bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth.  For the life of all flesh―its blood is its life.  Therefore I say to the Israelite people: You shall not partake of the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood.  Anyone who partakes of it shall be cut off.

Leviticus 17:13-14 (Torah)

     These are the animals that you may eat:   the ox, the sheep, and the goat; the deer, the gazelle, the roebuck, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope, the mountain sheep, and any other animal that has true hoofs which are cleft in two and brings up the cud―such you may eat.

Deuteronomy 14:4-6 (Torah)

 

     You shall not eat anything that has died a natural death; give it to the stranger in your community to eat, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a people consecrated to the LORD your God…

Deuteronomy 14:21 (Torah)

     If, along the road, you chance upon a bird’s nest, in any tree or on the ground, with fledglings or eggs and the mother sitting over the fledglings or on the eggs, do not take the mother together with her young.  Let the mother go, and take only the young, in order that you may fare well and have a long life.

Deuteronomy 22:6-7 (Torah)

     When you enter another man’s vineyard, you may eat as many grapes as you want, until you are full, but you must not put any in your vessel.

Deuteronomy 23:25 (Torah)

     When you enter another man’s field of standing grain, you may pluck ears with your hand; but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.

Deuteronomy 23:26 (Torah)

Additionally:  Genesis 9:4, Leviticus 7:26-27, 17:15-16, 19:26, Deuteronomy 12:15-16 and 20-25, and 14:3-21.

The Laws Pertaining To Divorce

     

     A man takes a wife and possesses her.  She fails to please him because he finds something obnoxious about her, and he writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house; she leaves his household and becomes the wife of another man, then this latter man rejects her, writes her a bill of divorcement, hands it to her, and sends her away from his house; or the man who married her last dies. Then the first husband who divorced her shall not take her to wife again, since she has been defiled ―for that would be abhorrent to the LORD. You must not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you as a heritage.

Deuteronomy 24:1-4 (Torah)

The Laws Pertaining To Family Relationships

 

     You shall each revere his mother and his father…

Leviticus 19:3 (Torah)

     You shall not hate your kinsfolk in your heart.  Reprove your kinsman but incur no guilt because of him.

Leviticus 19:17 (Torah)

     Do not degrade your daughter and make her a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry and the land be filled with depravity.  

Leviticus 19:29 (Torah)

     If, however, there is a needy person among you, one of your kinsmen in any of your settlements in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not harden your heart and shut your hand against your needy kinsman.  Rather, you must open your hand and lend him sufficient for whatever he needs.

Deuteronomy 15:7-8 (Torah)

     If a man has a wayward and defiant son, who does not heed his father or mother and does not obey them even after they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his town at the public place of his community. They shall say to the elders of his town, “This son of ours is disloyal and defiant; he does not heed us.  He is a glutton and a drunkard.”  Thereupon the men of his town shall stone him to death.  Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst; all Israel will hear and be afraid.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 (Torah)

     When brothers dwell together and one of them dies and leaves no son, the wife of the deceased shall not be married to a stranger, outside the family.  Her husband’s brother shall unite with her:  he shall take her as his wife and perform the levir’s duty.  The first son that she bears shall be accounted to the dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out in Israel.  But if the man does not want to marry his brother’s widow, his brother’s widow shall appear before the elders in the gate and declare, “My husband’s brother refuses to establish a name in Israel for his brother; he will not perform the duty of a levir.” The elders of his town shall then summon him and talk to him.  If he insists, saying, “I do not want to marry her,” his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, pull the sandal off his foot, spit in his face, and make this declaration: Thus shall be done to the man who will not build up his brother’s house!  And he shall go in Israel by the name of “the family of the un-sandaled one.”

Deuteronomy 25:5-10 (Torah)

Additionally:  Exodus 21:15 and 17, and Leviticus 20:9.

The Laws Pertaining To The First Born

     The LORD spoke further to Moses, saying, “Consecrate to Me every first-born; man and beast, the first issue of every womb among the Israelites is Mine.”

Exodus 13:1-2 (Torah)      

    You shall set apart for the LORD every first issue of the womb:  every male firstling that your cattle drop shall be the LORD’s.  But every firstling ass you shall redeem with a sheep; if you do not redeem it, you must break its neck.  And you must redeem every first-born male among your children.  And when, in time to come, your son asks you, saying, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ‘It was with a mighty hand that the LORD brought us out from Egypt, the house of bondage. When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the LORD slew every first-born in the land of Egypt, the first-born of both man and beast.  Therefore I sacrifice to the LORD every first male issue of the womb, but redeem every first-born among my sons.’

Exodus 13:12-15 (Torah)

Additionally:  Exodus 34:19-20.

The Laws Pertaining To Humanity

     You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, …

Exodus 22:20 (Torah)

     You shall not ill-treat any widow or orphan.  If you do mistreat them, I will heed their out-cry as soon as they cry out to Me, and My anger shall blaze forth and I will put you to the sword, and your own wives shall become widows and your children orphans.

Exodus 22:21-23 (Torah)

      You shall not insult the deaf, or place a stumbling block before the blind.  You shall fear your God:  I am the LORD.   

Leviticus 19:14 (Torah)

     Do not deal basely with your countrymen.  Do not profit by the blood of your fellow:  I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:16 (Torah)

     You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against your countrymen.  Love your fellow as yourself:  I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:18 (Torah)

    You shall rise before the aged and show deference to the old; you shall fear your God: I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:32 (Torah)

     When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not wrong him.  The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as one of your citizens; you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt:  I the LORD am your God.

Leviticus 19:33-34 (Torah)

     Do not wrong one another but fear your God; for I the LORD am your God.

Leviticus 25:17 (Torah)

     You too must befriend the stranger…

Deuteronomy 10:19 (Torah)

Additionally:  Genesis 1:27-28 and Exodus 23:9.

The Laws Pertaining To Idolatry

     With Me, therefore, you shall not make any gods of silver, nor shall you make for yourselves any gods of gold.  

Exodus 20:20 (Torah)

     Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the LORD alone shall be *proscribed.

Exodus 22:19 (Torah)

*Condemned to death

     Be on guard concerning all that I have told you.  Make no mention of the names of other gods; they shall not be heard on your lips.

Exodus 23:13 (Torah)

     When My angel goes before you and brings you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I annihilate them, you shall not bow down to their gods in worship or follow their practices, but shall tear them down and smash their pillars to bits.  You shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will remove sickness from your midst.  No woman in your land shall miscarry or be barren.  I will let you enjoy the full count of your days. … You shall make no covenant with them and their gods.  They shall not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me; for you will serve their gods―and it will prove a snare to you.

Exodus 23:23-33 (Torah)

     Do not turn to idols or make molten gods for yourselves:  I the LORD am you God.

Leviticus 19:4 (Torah)

     And the LORD spoke to Moses; Say further to the Israelite people:

     Anyone among the Israelites, or among the strangers residing in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech, shall be put to death; the people of the land shall pelt him with stones.  And I will set My face against that man and will cut him off from among his people, because he gave of his offspring to Molech and so defiled My sanctuary and profaned My holy name. And if the people of the land should shut their eyes to that man when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and should not put him to death, I Myself will set My face against that man and his kin, and will cut off from among their people both him and all who follow him in going astray after Molech.

Leviticus 20:1-5 (Torah)

     You shall not make idols for yourselves, or set up for yourselves carved images or pillars, or place figured stones in your land to worship upon, for I the LORD am your God.  

Leviticus 26:1 (Torah)

     For your own sake, therefore, be most careful―since you saw no shape when the LORD your God spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire―not to act wickedly and make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness whatever; the form of a man or a woman, the form of any beast on earth, the form of any winged bird that flies in the sky, the form of anything that creeps on the ground, the form of any fish that is in the waters below the earth.

Deuteronomy 4:15-18 (Torah)

     And when you look up to the sky and behold the sun and the moon and the stars, the whole heavenly host, you must not be lured into bowing down to them or serving them. …

Deuteronomy 4:19 (Torah)

     Take care, then, not to forget the covenant that the LORD your God concluded with you, and not to make for yourselves a sculptured image in any likeness, against which the LORD your God has enjoined you.  For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, an impassioned God.

Deuteronomy 4:23-24 (Torah)

     You shall consign the images of their gods to the fire; you shall not covet the silver and gold on them and keep it for yourselves, lest you be ensnared thereby; for that is abhorrent to the LORD your God.  You must not bring an abhorrent thing into your house, or you will be proscribed like it; you must reject it as abominable and abhorrent, for it is proscribed.

Deuteronomy 7:25-26 (Torah)

     Take care not to be lured away to serve other gods and bow to them.  For the LORD’s anger will flare up against you, and He will shut up the skies so that there will be no rain and the ground will not yield its produce; and  you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is assigning to you.

Deuteronomy 11:16-17 (Torah)

     If your brother, your own mother’s son, or your son or daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your closest friend entices you in secret, saying, “Come let us worship other gods”―whom neither you nor your fathers have experienced―from among the gods of the peoples around you, either near to you or distant, anywhere from one end of the earth to the other:  do not assent or give heed to him.  Show him no pity or compassion, and do not shield him; but take his life.  Let your hand be the first against him to put him to death, and the hand of the rest of the people thereafter.

Deuteronomy 13:7-10 (Torah)

     You shall not set up a sacred post―any kind of pole beside the altar of the LORD your God that you may make―or erect a stone pillar; for such the LORD your God detest.  

Deuteronomy 16:21-22 (Torah)

     If there is found among you, in one of the settlements that the LORD your God is giving you, a man or woman who has affronted the LORD your God and transgressed His covenant―turning to the worship of other gods and bowing down to them, to the sun or the moon or any of the heavenly host, something I never commanded―and you have been informed or have learned of it, then you shall make a thorough inquiry.  If it is true, the fact is established, that abhorrent thing was perpetrated in Israel, you shall take the man or the woman who did that wicked thing out to the public place, and you shall stone them, man or woman, to death.

Deuteronomy 17:2-5 (Torah)

     No Israelite woman shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any Israelite man be a cult prostitute.

Deuteronomy 23:18 (Torah)

Additionally:  Exodus 34:17, Leviticus 18:21, Deuteronomy 13:2-6 and 13-19.

The Laws Pertaining To The Judicial System

     But for your own life-blood I will require a reckoning:  I will require it of every beast; of man, too, will I require a reckoning for human life, of every man for that of his fellow man!  Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in His image did God make man.

Genesis 9:5-6 (Torah)

     He who fatally strikes a man shall be put to death.  If he did not do it by design, but it came about by an act of God, I will assign you a place to which he can flee.

Exodus 21:12-13 (Torah)

     When a man schemes against another and kills him treacherously, you shall take him from My very altar to be put to death.

Exodus 21:14 (Torah)

     He who strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

Exodus 21:15 (Torah)

 

    He who kidnaps a man―whether he has sold him or is still holding him―shall be put to death.

Exodus 21:16 (Torah)

     When men quarrel and one strikes the other with stone or fist, and he does not die but has to take to his bed―if he then gets up and walks outdoors upon his staff, the assailant shall go unpunished, except that he must pay for his idleness and his cure.

Exodus 21:18-19 (Torah)

     When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod, and he dies there and then, he must be avenged.  But if he survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, since he is the other’s property.

Exodus 21:20-21 (Torah)

 

     When men fight, and one of them pushes a pregnant woman and a miscarriage results, but no other damage ensues, the one responsible shall be fined according as the woman’s husband may exact from him, the payment to be based on reckoning. But if other damage ensues, the penalty shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.  

Exodus 21:22-25 (Torah)

    When a man strikes the eye of his slave, male or female, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.  If he knocks out the tooth of his slave, male or female, he shall let him go free on account of his tooth.

Exodus 21:26-27 (Torah)

     When an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten, but the owner of the ox is not to be punished.  If, however, that ox has been in the habit of goring, and its owner, though warned, has failed to guard it, and it kills a man or a woman―the ox shall be stoned and its owner, too, shall be put to death. If ransom is laid upon him, he must pay whatever is laid upon him to redeem his life.  So, too, if it gores a minor, male or female, [the owner] shall be dealt with according to the same rule.  But if the ox gores a slave, male or female, he shall pay thirty shekels of silver to the master, and the ox shall be stoned.

Exodus 21:28-32 (Torah)

     When a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or an ass falls into it, the one responsible for the pit must make restitution; he shall pay the price to the owner, but shall keep the dead animal.

Exodus 21:33-34 (Torah)

     When a man’s ox injures his neighbor’s ox and it dies, they shall sell the live ox and divide its price; they shall also divide the dead animal.  If, however, it is known that the ox was in the habit of goring, and its owner has failed to guard it, he must restore ox for ox, but shall keep the dead animal.  

Exodus 21:35-36 (Torah)

     When a man steals an ox or a sheep, and slaughters it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for the ox, and four sheep for the sheep.―If the thief is seized while tunneling, and he is beaten to death, there is no bloodguilt in his case.  If the sun has risen on him, there is bloodguilt in that case.―He must make restitution; if he lacks the means, he shall be sold for his theft.  But if what he stole―whether ox or ass or sheep―is found alive in his possession, he shall pay double.

Exodus 21:37-22:3 (Torah)

     When a man lets his livestock loose to graze in another’s land, and so allows a field or a vineyard to be grazed bare, he must make restitution for the impairment of that field or vineyard.

Exodus 22:4 (Torah)

     When a fire is started and spreads to thorns, so that stacked, standing, or growing grain is consumed, he who started the fire must make restitution.

Exodus 22:5 (Torah)

     When a man gives money or goods to another for safekeeping, and they are stolen from the man’s house―if the thief is caught, he shall pay double; if the thief is not caught, the owner of the house shall depose before God that he has not laid hands on the other’s property.  In all charges of misappropriation―pertaining to an ox, an ass, a sheep, a garment, or any other loss, whereof one party alleges, “This is it”―the case of both parties shall come before God:  he whom God declares guilty shall pay double to the other.  

Exodus 22:6-8 (Torah)

     When a man gives to another an ass, an ox, a sheep or any other animal to guard, and it dies or is injured or is carried off, with no witness about, an oath before the LORD shall decide between the two of them that the one has not laid hands on the property of the other; the owner must *acquiesce, and no restitution shall be made.  But if [the animal] was stolen from him, he shall make restitution to its owner.  If it was torn by beasts, he shall bring it as evidence; he need not replace what has been torn by beasts.

Exodus 22:9-12 (Torah)

*To remain quiet and passively accept your circumstances.

     When a man borrows [an animal] from another and it dies or is injured, its owner not being with it, he must make restitution.  If its owner was with it, no restitution need be made; but if it was hired, he is entitled to the hire.

Exodus 22:13-14 (Torah)

     You must not carry false rumors; you shall not join hands with the guilty to act as a malicious witness:  You shall neither side with the mighty to do wrong―you shall not give perverse testimony in a dispute so as to pervert it in favor of the mighty―nor shall you show deference to a poor man in his dispute.

Exodus 23:1-3 (Torah)

    

      You shall not subvert the rights of your needy in their disputes.  

Exodus 23:6 (Torah)

     Keep far from a false charge; do not bring death on those who are innocent and in the right, for I will not acquit the wrongdoer.

Exodus 23:7 (Torah)

     Do not take bribes, for bribes blind the clear-sighted and upset the pleas of those who are in the right.

Exodus 23:8 (Torah)

     The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:  When a person sins and commits a trespass against the LORD by dealing deceitfully with his fellow in the matter of a deposit or a pledge, or through robbery, or by defrauding his fellow, or by finding something lost and lying about it; if he swears falsely regarding any one of the various things that one may do and sin thereby―when one has thus sinned and, realizing his guilt, would restore that which he got through robbery or fraud, or the deposit that was entrusted to him, or the lost thing that he found, or anything else about which he swore falsely, he shall repay the principle amount and add a fifth part to it.  He shall pay it to its owner when he realizes his guilt.  

Leviticus 5:20-24 (Torah)

     You shall not render an unfair decision:  do not favor the poor or show deference to the rich; judge your kinsman fairly.  

Leviticus 19:15 (Torah)

     If a man has carnal relations with a woman who is a slave and has been designated for another man, but has not been redeemed or given her freedom, there shall be an indemnity; they shall not, however, be put to death, since she has not been freed.

Leviticus 19:20 (Torah)

      If anyone insults his father or his mother, he shall be put to death; he has insulted his father and his mother―his bloodguilt is upon him.

Leviticus 20:9 (Torah)

     If a man commits adultery with a married woman, committing adultery with another man’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall be put to death.  If a man lies with his father’s wife, it is the nakedness of his father that he has uncovered; the two shall be put to death―their bloodguilt is upon them.  If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall be put to death; they have committed incest―their bloodguilt is upon them.  If a man lies with a male as one lies with a woman, the two of them have done an abhorrent thing; they shall be put to death―their bloodguilt is upon them.  If a man marries a woman and her mother, it is depravity; both he and they shall be put to the fire, that there be no depravity among you.  If a man has carnal relations with a beast, he shall be put to death; and you shall kill the beast.  If a woman approaches any beast to mate with it, you shall kill the woman and the beast; they shall be put to death―their bloodguilt is upon them.

   Leviticus 20:10-16 (Torah)

     A man or a woman who has a ghost or a familiar spirit shall be put to death; they shall be pelted with stones―their bloodguilt shall be upon them.

Leviticus 20:27 (Torah)

     If anyone kills any human being, he shall be put to death.  One who kills a beast shall make restitution for it:  life for life.  If anyone maims his fellow, as he has done so shall it be done to him:  fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.  The injury he inflicted on another shall be inflicted on him.  One who kills a beast shall make restitution for it; but one who kills a human being shall be put to death.  You shall have one standard for stranger and citizen alike:  for I the LORD am your God.

Leviticus 24:17-22 (Torah)

     The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:  Speak to the Israelites:  When a man or woman commits any wrong toward a fellow man, thus breaking faith with the LORD, and that person realizes his guilt, he shall confess the wrong that he has done.  He shall make restitution in the principal amount and add one-fifth to it, giving it to him whom he has wronged.  If the man has no kinsman to whom restitution can be made, the amount repaid shall go to the LORD for the priest…

Numbers 5:5-8 (Torah)

     ... the manslayer may not die unless he has stood trial before the assembly.

Numbers 35:12 (Torah)

     Anyone, however, who strikes another with an iron object so that death results is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.   If he struck him with a stone tool that could cause death, and death resulted, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.  Similarly, if the object with which he struck him was a wooden tool that could cause death, and death resulted, he is a murderer; the murderer must be put to death.  The blood-avenger himself shall put the murderer to death; it is he who shall put him to death upon encounter.  So too, if he pushed him in hate or hurled something at him on purpose and death resulted, or if he struck him with his hand in enmity and death resulted, the assailant shall be put to death; he is a murderer.  The blood-avenger shall put the murderer to death upon encounter.  But if he pushed him without malice aforethought or hurled any object at him unintentionally, or inadvertently dropped upon him any deadly object of stone, and death resulted―though he was not an enemy of his and did not seek his harm―in such cases as the assembly shall decide between the slayer and the blood-avenger.

Numbers 35:16-24 (Torah)

     

     You may not accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of a capital crime; he must be put to death.

Numbers 35:31 (Torah)

     ... “Hear out your fellow men, and decide justly between any man and a fellow Israelite or a stranger.  You shall not be partial in judgment:  hear out low and high alike.  Fear no man, for judgment is God’s. ...  

Deuteronomy 1:16-17 (Torah)

     You shall investigate and inquire and interrogate thoroughly. …

Deuteronomy 13:15 (Torah)

     You shall appoint magistrates and officials for your tribes, in all the settlements that the LORD your God is giving you, and they shall govern the people with due justice.

Deuteronomy 16:18 (Torah)

     You shall not judge unfairly:  you shall show no partiality; you shall not take bribes, for bribes blind the eyes of the discerning and upset the plea of the just.

Deuteronomy 16:19 (Torah)

     Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may thrive and occupy the land that the LORD your God is giving you.  

Deuteronomy 16:20 (Torah)

     A person shall be put to death only on the testimony of two or more witnesses; he must not be put to death on the testimony of a single witness.―Let the hands of the witnesses be the first against him to put him to death, and the hands of the rest of the people thereafter.  Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.

Deuteronomy 17:6-7 (Torah)

     If a case is too baffling for you to decide, be it a controversy over homicide, civil law, or assault―matters of dispute in your courts―you shall promptly repair to the place that the LORD your God will have chosen, and appear before the levitical priests, or the magistrate in charge at the time, and present your problem.  When they have announced to you the verdict in the case, you shall carry out the verdict that is announced to you from that place that the LORD chose, observing scrupulously all their instructions to you.  You shall act in accordance with the instructions given you and the ruling handed down to you; you must not deviate from the verdict that they announce to you either to the right or to the left.  Should a man act presumptuously; and disregard the priest charged with serving there the LORD your God, or the magistrate, that man shall die.  Thus you will sweep out evil from Israel:  all the people will hear and be afraid and will not act presumptuously again.

Deuteronomy 17:8-13 (Torah)

     A single witness may not validate against a person any guilt or blame for any offense that may be committed; a case can be valid only on the testimony of two witnesses or more.  If a man appears against another to testify maliciously and gives false testimony against him, the two parties to the dispute shall appear before the LORD, before the priests or magistrates in authority at the time, and the magistrates shall make a thorough investigation.  If the man who testified is a false witness, if he has testified falsely against his fellow, you shall do to him as he schemed to do to his fellow.  Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst; others will hear and be afraid, and such evil things will not again be done in your midst.  Nor must you show pity:  life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Deuteronomy 19:15-21 (Torah)

     If a man is guilty of a capital offense and is put to death, and you impale him on a stake, you must not let his corpse remain on the stake overnight, but must bury him the same day.  For an impaled body is an affront to God:  you shall not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

Deuteronomy 21:22-23 (Torah)

     If a man is found lying with another man's wife, both of them―the man and the woman with whom he lay―shall die.  Thus you will sweep away evil from your midst.

Deuteronomy 22:22 (Torah)

     In the case of a virgin who is engaged to a man―if a man comes upon her in town and lies with her, you shall take the two of them out to the gate of that town and stone them to death:  the girl because she did not cry for help in the town, and the man because he violated another man’s wife.  Thus you will sweep away evil from your midst.  But if the man comes upon the engaged girl in the open country, and the man lies with her by force, only the man who lay with her shall die, but you shall do nothing to the girl.  The girl did not incur the death penalty, for this case is like that of a man attacking another and murdering him.  He came upon her in the open:  though the engaged girl cried for help, there was no one to save her.

Deuteronomy 22:23-27 (Torah)

     If a man is found to have kidnapped a fellow Israelite, enslaving him or selling him, that kidnapper shall die; thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.

Deuteronomy 24:7 (Torah)

     Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children be put to death for parents: a person shall be put to death only for his own crime.

Deuteronomy 24:16 (Torah)

     You shall not subvert the rights of the stranger or the fatherless; …

Deuteronomy 24:17 (Torah)

     When there is a dispute between men and they go to law, and a decision is rendered declaring the one in the right and the other in the wrong―if the guilty one is to be flogged, the magistrate shall have him lie down and be given lashes in his presence, by count, as his guilt warrants.  He may be given up to forty lashes, but not more, lest being flogged further, to excess, your brother be degraded before your eyes.  

Deuteronomy 25:1-3 (Torah)

     If two men get into a fight with each other, and the wife of one comes up to save her husband from his antagonist and puts out her hand and seizes him by his genitals, you shall cut off her hand; show no pity.

Deuteronomy 25:11-12 (Torah)

Additionally:  Exodus 21:17, 22:18, 22:15-16, Leviticus 19:16, Numbers 35:30, Deuteronomy 17:2-5, 21:18-21, 22:13-21, and 28-29.

The Laws Pertaining To The Law

      He said, “If you will heed the LORD your God diligently, doing what is upright in His sight, giving ear to His commandments and keeping all His laws, then I will not bring upon you any of the diseases that I brought upon the Egyptians, for I the LORD am your healer.”

 Exodus 15:26 (Torah)  

     Now then, if you will obey Me faithfully and keep My covenant, you shall be My treasured possession among all the peoples.  Indeed, all the earth is Mine, but you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.  These are the words that you shall speak to the children of Israel."

   Exodus 19:5-6 (Torah)

     My rules alone shall you observe, and faithfully follow My laws:  I the LORD am your God.  You shall keep My laws and My rules, by the pursuit of which man shall live:  I am the LORD.

Leviticus 18:4-5 (Torah)

     You shall sanctify yourselves and be holy, for I the LORD am your God.  You shall faithfully observe My laws:  I the LORD make you holy.

Leviticus 20:7-8 (Torah)     

     You shall faithfully observe all My laws and all My regulations, lest the land to which I bring you to settle in spew you out. You shall not follow the practices of the nations that I am driving out before you.  For it is because they did all these things that I abhorred them and said to you:  You shall possess their land, for I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.   I the LORD am you God who has set you apart from other people.  

Leviticus 20:22-24 (Torah)

    You shall have one standard for stranger and citizen alike:  for I the LORD am your God.

Leviticus 24:22 (Torah)

     Be careful, then, to do as the LORD your God has commanded you.  Do not turn aside to the right or to the left:  follow only the path that the LORD your God has enjoined upon you, so that you may thrive and that it may go well with you, and that you may long endure in the land you are to possess.

Deuteronomy 5:29-30 (Torah)

     Take to heart these instructions with which I charge you this day.  Impress them upon your children.  Recite them when you stay at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up.  Bind them as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead; inscribe them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Deuteronomy 6:6-9 (Torah)

     Love, therefore, the LORD your God, and always keep His charge, His laws, His rules, and His commandments.

Deuteronomy 11:1 (Torah)

     If, then, you obey the commandments that I enjoin upon you this day, loving the LORD your God and serving Him with all your heart and soul, I will grant the rain for your land in season, the early rain and the late.  You shall gather in your new grain and wine and oil―I will also provide grass in the fields for your cattle―and thus you shall eat your fill.

Deuteronomy 11:13-15 (Torah)

     Be careful to observe only that which I enjoin upon you:  neither add to it nor take away from it.   

Deuteronomy 13:1 (Torah)

     There shall be no needy among you―since the LORD your God will bless you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as a hereditary portion―if only you heed the LORD your God and take care to keep all this Instruction that I enjoin upon you this day.  For the LORD your God will bless you as He has promised you: you will extend loans to many nations, but require none yourself; you will dominate many nations, but they will not dominate you.

Deuteronomy 15:4-6 (Torah)

     The LORD your God commands you this day to observe these laws and rules; observe them faithfully with all your heart and soul.  You have affirmed this day that the LORD is your God, that you will walk in His ways, that you will observe His laws and commandments and rules, and that you will obey Him.  And the LORD has affirmed this day that you are, as He promised you, His treasured people who shall observe all His commandments, and that He will set you, in fame and renown and glory, high above all the nations that He has made; and that you shall be, as He promised, a holy people to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 26:16-19 (Torah)

Additionally:  Leviticus 18:24-30, 19:1-2, 19, 37, 20:26; Numbers 15:38-40, Deuteronomy 4:39-40, 6:1-3, 16-19, 20-25, 7:9-11, 8:5-6, 11:18-20, and 12:28.

The Laws Pertaining To Leadership

     You shall not revile God, nor put a curse upon a chieftain among your people.

Exodus 22:27 (Torah)

     If, after you have entered the land that the LORD your God has assigned to you, and taken possession of it and settled in it, you decide, “I will set a king over me, as do all the nations about me,” you shall be free to set a king over yourself, one chosen by the LORD your God.  Be sure to set as king over yourself one of your own people; you must not set a foreigner over you, one who is not your kinsman.  Moreover, he shall not keep many horses or send people back to Egypt to add to his horses, since the LORD has warned you, “You must not go back that way again.”  And he shall not have many wives, lest his heart go astray; nor shall he amass silver and gold to excess.

     When he is seated on his royal throne, he shall have a copy of this Teaching written for him on a scroll by the levitical priests.  Let it remain with him and let him read in it all his life, so that he may learn to revere the LORD his God, to observe faithfully every word of this Teaching as well as these laws.  Thus he will not act haughtily toward his fellows or deviate from the Instruction to the right or to the left, to the end that he and his descendants may reign long in the midst of Israel.

Deuteronomy 17:14-20 (Torah)

The Laws Pertaining To The Lord Our God

     You shall not *revile God, …

Exodus 22:27 (Torah)

*Subject to verbal abuse.

     You shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless your bread and your water.  And I will remove sickness from your midst.

Exodus 23:25 (Torah)

     ... do not *profane the name of your God:  I am the LORD.

Leviticus 18:21 (Torah)

*To use in an unworthy or vulgar manner.

     You shall not swear falsely by My name, profaning the name of your God:  I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:12 (Torah)  

     ... You shall fear your God:  I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:14 (Torah)

     And to the Israelite people speak thus:  Anyone who *blasphemes his God shall bear his guilt; if he also pronounces the name LORD, he shall be put to death.  The whole community shall stone him; stranger or citizen, if he has thus pronounced the Name, he shall be put to death.

Leviticus 24:15-16 (Torah)

*To speak of or address with irreverence.

     You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Deuteronomy 6:5 (Torah)

     

     Revere only the LORD your God and worship Him alone, and swear only by His name.  Do not follow other gods, any gods of the peoples about you―for the LORD your God in your midst is an impassioned God―least the anger of the LORD your God blaze forth against you and He wipe you off the face of the earth.  

Deuteronomy 6:13-15 (Torah)

The Laws Pertaining To Marriage

     And God created man in His image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.  God blessed them and God said to them, “Be fertile and increase, fill the earth and master it; and rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and all the living things that creep on earth.

Genesis 1:27-28 (Torah)

     So the LORD God cast a deep sleep upon the man; and, while he slept, He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that spot.  And the LORD God fashioned the rib that He had taken from the man into a woman; and He brought her to the man.  Then the man said, “This one at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.  This one shall be called Woman, for from man was she taken.”

     Hence a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, so that they become one flesh.

Genesis 2:21-24 (Torah)

     Do not marry a woman as a rival to her sister and uncover her nakedness in the other's lifetime.

Leviticus 18:18 (Torah)

     If a man marries his sister, the daughter of either his father or his mother, so that he sees her nakedness and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace; they shall be excommunicated in the sight of their kinsfolk.  He has uncovered the nakedness of his sister, he shall bear his guilt.

Leviticus 20:17 (Torah)

     No man shall marry his father’s former wife, so as to remove his father’s garment.

Deuteronomy 23:1 (Torah)

Additionally:  Deuteronomy 24:5 and 25:5-10.  

The Laws Pertaining To A Nazirite

  

     The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:  Speak to the Israelites and say to them:  If anyone, man or woman, explicitly utters a nazirite’s vow, to set himself apart for the LORD, he shall abstain from wine and any other intoxicant; he shall not drink vinegar of wine or any other intoxicant, neither shall he drink anything in which grapes have been steeped, nor eat grapes fresh or dried.  Throughout his term as nazirite, he may not eat anything that is obtained from the grape-vine, even seeds or skin.

     Throughout the term of his vow as nazirite, no razor shall touch his head; it shall remain consecrated until the completion of his term as nazirite of the LORD, the hair of his head being left to grow untrimmed.  Throughout the term that he has set apart for the LORD, he shall not go in where there is a dead person.  Even if his father or mother, or his brother or sister should die, he must not defile himself for them, since hair set apart for his God is upon his head:  throughout his term as nazirite he is consecrated to the LORD.

     If a person dies suddenly near him, defiling his consecrated hair, he shall shave his head on the day he becomes clean; he shall shave it on the seventh day.

Numbers 6:1-21 (Torah)

(I have omitted the remaining laws pertaining to a Nazirite, in Numbers 6:10-21; because they pertain to the laws of sacrifice, and the priesthood is inactive at this time.)

The Laws Pertaining To Personal Care

     You shall not round off the *side-growth on your head, or *destroy the side-growth of your beard.  

Leviticus 19:27(Torah)

*Mohawks and other strange shavings.

** Goatees', Fu Manchu's, or other strange shavings.

     You shall not make gashes in your flesh for the dead, or *incise any marks on yourselves:  I am the LORD.

Leviticus 19:28 (Torah)

*Tattoo

     You are children of the LORD your God.  You shall not gash yourselves or shave the front of your heads because of the dead.

Deuteronomy 14:1 (Torah)

The Laws Pertaining To Personal Property

     If you see your fellow’s ox or sheep gone astray, do not ignore it; you must take it back to your fellow.  If your fellow does not live near you or you do not know who he is, you shall bring it home and it shall remain with you until your fellow claims it; then you shall give it back to him.  You shall do the same with his ass; your shall do the same with his garment; and so too shall you do with anything that your fellow loses and you find: you must not remain indifferent.

Deuteronomy 22:1-3 (Torah)

The Laws Pertaining To Prayer

     The LORD spoke to Moses:  Speak to Aaron and his sons:  Thus shall you bless the people of Israel.  Say to them:  The LORD bless you and protect you!  The LORD deal kindly and graciously with you?  The LORD bestow His favor upon you and grant you peace?  Thus they shall link My name with the people of Israel, and I will bless them.

Number 6:22-27 (Torah)

     When you have eaten your fill, give thanks to the LORD your God for the good land which He has given you.

Deuteronomy 8:10 (Torah)

The Laws Pertaining To Prophesy

     If there appears among you a prophet or a dream-diviner and he gives you a sign or a portent, saying, “Let us follow and worship another god”―whom you have not experienced―even if the sign or portent that he named to you comes true, do not heed the words of that prophet or that dream-diviner.  For the LORD your God is testing you to see whether you really love the LORD your God with all your heart and soul.  Follow none but the LORD your God, and revere none but Him; observe His commandments alone, and heed only His orders; worship none but Him, and hold fast to Him.  As for that prophet or dream-diviner, he shall be put to death; for he urged disloyalty to the LORD your God… to make you stray from the path that the LORD your God commanded you to follow.  Thus you will sweep out evil from your midst.

Deuteronomy 13:2-6 (Torah)

     The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet from among your own people, like myself; him you shall heed. … Whereupon the LORD said, … I will put My words in his mouth and he will speak to them all that I command him; and if anybody fails to heed the words he speaks in My name, I Myself will call him to account.  But any prophet who presumes to speak in My name an oracle that I did not command him to utter, or who speaks in the name of other gods―that prophet shall die."  And should you ask yourselves, “How can we know that the oracle was not spoken by the LORD?”―if the prophet speaks in the name of the LORD and the oracle does not come true, that oracle was not spoken by the LORD; the prophet has uttered it presumptuously:  do not stand in dread of him.

Deuteronomy 18:15-22 (Torah)

The Laws Pertaining To Purity

     ... and the LORD said to Moses, "Go to the people and warn them to stay pure today and tomorrow.  Let them wash their cloths. ...

     Moses came down from the mountain to the people and warned the people to stay pure, and they washed their clothes.  And he said to the people, "Be ready for the third day:  do not go near a woman."

Exodus 19:10-15 (Torah)

The Laws Pertaining To Real Estate

     When you sell property to your neighbor, or buy any from your neighbor, you shall not wrong one another.

Leviticus 25:14 (Torah)

     But the land must not be sold beyond reclaim, for the land is Mine; you are but stranger's resident with Me.

Leviticus 25:23 (Torah)

     ... ‘If a man dies without leaving a son, you shall transfer his property to his daughter.  If he has no daughter, you shall assign his property to his brothers.  If he has no brothers, you shall assign his property to his father’s brothers.  If his father had no brothers, you shall assign his property to his nearest relative in his own clan, and he shall inherit it.’…

Numbers 27:8-11 (Torah)

     You shall not move your countryman’s landmarks, set up by previous generations, in the property that will be allotted to you in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.

Deuteronomy 19:14 (Torah)

     If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, but the first-born is the son of the unloved one―when he wills his property to his sons, he may not treat as first-born the son of the loved one in disregard of the son of the unloved one who is older.  Instead, he must accept the first-born, the son of the unloved one, and allot to him a double portion of all he possesses; since he is the first fruit of his vigor, the birthright is his due.

Deuteronomy 21:15-17 (Torah)

     When you build a new house, you shall make a parapet for your roof, so that you do not bring bloodguilt on your house if anyone should fall from it.

Deuteronomy 22:8 (Torah)

The Laws Pertaining To Sexual Relationships

     None of you shall come near anyone of his own flesh to uncover nakedness:  I am the LORD.  Your father’s nakedness, that is, the nakedness of your mother, you shall not uncover; she is your mother―you shall not uncover her nakedness.  Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s wife; it is the nakedness of your father.  The nakedness of your sister―your father’s daughter or your mother’s, whether born into the household or outside―do not uncover their nakedness.  The nakedness of your son’s daughter, or of your daughter’s daughter―do not uncover their nakedness; for their nakedness is yours.  The nakedness of your father’s wife’s daughter, who has born into your father’s household―she is your sister; do not uncover her nakedness.  Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister; she is your father’s flesh.

Do not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister; for she is your mother’s flesh.  Do not uncover the nakedness of your father’s brother:  do not approach his wife; she is your aunt.  Do not uncover the nakedness of your daughter-in-law:  she is your son’s wife; you shall not uncover her nakedness.  Do not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife; it is the nakedness of your brother.  Do not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter; nor shall you marry her son’s daughter or her daughter’s daughter and uncover her nakedness:  they are kindred; it is depravity.  Do not marry a woman as a rival to her sister and uncover her nakedness in the other’s lifetime.  

Leviticus 18:6-18 (Torah)

     Do not come near a woman during her period of uncleanness to uncover her nakedness.  

Leviticus 18:19 (Torah)

     Do not have carnal relations with your neighbor’s wife and defile yourself with her.  

Leviticus 18:20 (Torah)

     Do not lie with a male as one lies with a woman; it is an abhorrence.

Leviticus 18:22 (Torah)

     Do not have carnal relations with any beast and defile yourself thereby; and let no woman lend herself to a beast to mate with it; it is perversion.

Leviticus 18:23 (Torah)

     If a man lies with a woman in her infirmity and uncovers her nakedness, he has laid bare her flow and she has exposed her blood flow; both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

Leviticus 20:18 (Torah)

     You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister, for that is laying bare one’s own flesh; they shall bear their guilt.  If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, it is his uncle’s nakedness that he has uncovered.  They shall bear their guilt; they shall die childless.   If a man marries the wife of his brother, it is indecency.  It is the nakedness of his brother that he has uncovered; they shall remain childless.

Leviticus 20:19-21 (Torah)

Additionally:  Exodus 22:18, Leviticus 19:20, 20:17, and 29, 20:10-16, Deuteronomy 22:22, 23:1, and 23:18.

The Laws Pertaining To The Silver Trumpets

     The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:  Have two silver trumpets made; make them of hammered work.  They shall serve you to summon the community and to set the divisions in motion.  … Thus short blast shall be blown for setting them in motion, while to convoke the congregation you shall blow long blast, not short ones.  The trumpets shall be blown by Aaron’s sons, the priests; they shall be for you an institution for all time throughout the ages.  

     When you are at war in your land against an aggressor who attacks you, you shall sound short blast on the trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God and be delivered from your enemies.  And on your joyous occasions―your fixed festivals and new moon days―you shall sound the trumpets over your burnt offerings and your sacrifices of well-being.  They shall be a reminder of you before your God:  I, the LORD, am your God.

Numbers 10:1-10 (Torah)

The Laws Pertaining To Slavery

     When you acquire a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years; in the seventh year he shall go free, without payment.  If he came single, he shall leave single; if he had a wife, his wife shall leave with him.  If his master gave him a wife, and she has borne him children, the wife and her children shall belong to the master, and he shall leave alone. But if the slave declares, “I love my master, and my wife and children; I do not wish to go free,” his master shall take him before God.  He shall be brought to the door or the doorpost, and his master shall pierce his ear with an awl; and he shall then remain his slave for life.

Exodus 21:2-6 (Torah)

     When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she shall not be freed as male slaves are.  If she proves to be displeasing to her master, who designated her for himself, he must let her be redeemed; he shall not have the right to sell her to outsiders, since he broke faith with her.  And if he designated her for his son, he shall deal with her as is the practice with free maidens.  If he marries another, he must not withhold from this one her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.  If he fails her in these three ways, she shall go free, without payment.

Exodus 21:7-11 (Torah)

     If a fellow Hebrew, man or woman, is sold to you, he shall serve you six years, and in the seventh year you shall set him free.  When you set him free, do not let him go empty-handed:  Furnish him out of the flock, threshing floor, and vat, with which the LORD your God has blessed you.  Bear in mind that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I enjoin this commandment upon you today.  

     But should he say to you, "I do not want to leave you"―for he loves you and your household and is happy with you―you shall take an awl and put it through his ear into the door, and he shall become your slave in perpetuity.   Do the same with your female slave.  When you do set him free, do not feel aggrieved; for in the six years he has given you double the service of a hired man.  Moreover, the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.

Deuteronomy 15:12-18 (Torah)

     You shall not turn over to his master a slave who seeks refuge with you from his master.  He shall live with you in any place he may choose among the settlements in your midst, wherever he pleases; you must not ill-treat him.

Deuteronomy 23:16-17 (Torah)

Additionally:  Exodus 21:20-21 and 26-27, and Leviticus 19:20.

The Laws Pertaining To Sorcery

     You shall not tolerate a sorceress.

Exodus 22:17 (Torah)

     ... You shall not practice divination or soothsaying.

Leviticus 19:26 (Torah)

     Do not turn to ghosts and do not inquire of *familiar spirits, to be defiled by them:  I the LORD am your God.

Leviticus 19:31 (Torah)

*The spirit of a dead person invoked by a medium to advise or prophesy.

      Let no one be found among you who consigns his son or daughter to the fire, or who is an augur, a soothsayer, a diviner, a sorcerer, one who casts spells, or one who consults ghosts or familiar spirits, or one who inquires of the dead.  For anyone who does such things is abhorrent to the LORD, and it is because of these abhorrent things that the LORD your God is dispossessing them before you.  

Deuteronomy 18:10-12 (Torah)

An augur is one who uses omens in order to tell the future, a soothsayer is one who foretells the future either through intuition or magic, a diviner is one who practices soothsaying or divines the location of water or minerals, a sorcerer is one who practices wizardry, one who cast spells is one who practices witchcraft, and one who consults ghost or familiar spirits or inquires of the dead is one who is a medium and participates in séances. (A spiritual meeting in order to communicate with the dead or Satan himself)

Additionally:  Leviticus 20:27.

The Laws Pertaining To Tithes And Offerings

     You shall not put off the skimming of the first yield of your vats.  You shall give Me the first-born among your sons.  You shall do the same with your cattle and your flocks:  seven days it shall remain with its mother; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.

Exodus 22:28-29 (Torah)

 

    The choice *first fruits of your soil you shall bring to the house of the LORD your God.

Exodus 23:19 (Torah)

*Because the fruits of our labor are settled monetarily today, the first 10% of our earnings should be dedicated to the Lord.

     The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:  When you take a census of the Israelite people according to their enrollment, each shall pay the LORD a ransom for himself on being enrolled, that no plague may come upon them through their being enrolled. This is what everyone who is entered in the records shall pay:  a half-shekel by the sanctuary weight―twenty gerahs to the shekel―a half shekel as an offering to the LORD. Everyone who is entered in the records, from the age of twenty years up, shall give the LORD’s offering:  the rich shall not pay more and the poor shall not pay less than half a shekel when giving the LORD’s offering as expiation for your persons.  You shall take the expiation money from the Israelites and assign it to the service of the Tent of Meeting; it shall serve the Israelites as a reminder before the LORD, as expiation for your persons.

Exodus 30:11-16 (Torah)

     …None shall appear before Me empty-handed.

Exodus 34:20 (Torah)

     All tithes from the land, whether seed from the ground or fruit from the tree, are the LORD’s; they are holy to the LORD.  If anyone wishes to redeem any of his tithes, he must add one-fifth to them.  All tithes of the herd or flock―of all that passes under the shepherd’s staff, every tenth one―shall be holy to the LORD.  He must not look out for good as against bad, or make substitution for it.  If he does make substitution for it, then it and its substitute shall both be holy:  it cannot be redeemed.

Leviticus 27:30-33 (Torah)

     ... When you enter the land to which I am taking you and you eat of the bread of the land, you shall set some aside as a gift to the LORD:  as the first yield of your baking, you shall set aside a loaf as a gift; you shall set it aside as a gift like the gift from the threshing floor.  You shall make a gift to the LORD from the first yield of your baking, throughout the ages.

Numbers 15:17-21 (Torah)

     And to the Levites I hereby give all the tithes in Israel as their share in return for the services that they perform, the services of the Tent of Meeting.

Numbers 18:21 (Torah)

     Speak to the Levites and say to them:  When you receive from the Israelites their tithes, which I have assigned to you as your share, you shall set aside from them one-tenth of the tithe as a gift to the LORD.  This shall be accounted to you as your gift.  As with the new grain from the threshing floor or the flow from the vat, so shall you on your part set aside a gift for the LORD from all the tithes that you receive from the Israelites; and from them you shall bring the gift for the LORD to Aaron the priest.  You shall set aside all gifts due to the LORD from everything that is donated to you, from each thing its best portion, the part thereof that is to be consecrated.

Numbers 18:26-29 (Torah)

     Be sure not to neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.

Deuteronomy 12:19 (Torah)

     You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep that has any defect of a serious kind, for that is abhorrent to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 17:1 (Torah)

Additionally:   Deuteronomy 14:22-29, 15:19-23, and 26:1-15.

The Laws Pertaining To Un-Cleanliness

     And the following shall make you unclean―whoever touches their carcasses shall be unclean until evening, and whoever carries the carcasses of any of them shall wash his clothes and be unclean until evening―every animal that has true hoofs but without clefts through the hoofs, or that does not chew the cud.  They are unclean for you; whoever touches them shall be unclean.  Also all animals that walk on paws, among those that walk on fours, are unclean for you; whoever touches their carcasses shall be unclean until evening.  And anyone who carries their carcasses shall wash his clothes and remain unclean until evening.  They are unclean for you.

     The following shall be unclean for you from among the things that swarm on the earth:  the mole, the mouse, and great lizards of every variety; the gecko, the land crocodile, the lizard, the sand lizard, and the chameleon.  Those are for you the unclean among all the swarming things; whoever touches them when they are dead shall be unclean until evening.  And anything on which one of them falls when dead shall be unclean:  be it any article of wood, or a cloth, or a skin, or a sack―any such article that can be put to use shall be dipped in water, and it shall remain unclean until evening; then it shall be clean.  And if any of those falls into an earthen vessel, everything inside it shall be unclean and [the vessel] itself you shall break.  As to any food that may be eaten, it shall become unclean if it came in contact with water; as to any liquid that may be drunk, it shall become unclean if it was inside any vessel.  Everything on which the carcass of any of them falls shall be unclean:  an oven or stove shall be smashed.  They are unclean and unclean they shall remain for you.  However, a spring or cistern in which water is collected shall be clean, but whoever touches such a carcass in it shall be unclean.  If such a carcass falls upon seed grain that is to be sown, it is clean; but if water is put on the seed and any part of a carcass falls upon it, it shall be unclean for you.

     If an animal that you may eat has died, anyone who touches its carcass shall be unclean until evening; anyone who eats of its carcass shall wash his clothes and remain unclean until evening; and anyone who carries its carcass shall wash his clothes and remain unclean until evening.

Leviticus 11:24-40 (Torah)

     For I the LORD am your God:  you shall sanctify yourselves and be holy; for I am holy.  You shall not make yourselves unclean through any swarming thing that moves upon the earth.  

Leviticus 11:44 (Torah)

     Any person, whether citizen or stranger, who eats what has died or has been torn by beasts shall wash his clothes, bathe in water, and remain unclean until evening; then he shall be clean.  But if he does not wash [his clothes] and bathe his body, he shall bear his guilt.

Leviticus 17:15-16 (Torah)

     So you shall set apart the clean beast from the unclean, the unclean bird from the clean.  You shall not draw abomination upon yourselves through beast or bird or anything with which the ground is alive, which I have set apart for you to treat as unclean.  You shall be holy to Me, for I the LORD am holy, and I have set you apart from other peoples to be Mine.

Leviticus 20:25-26 (Torah)

     

     If anyone among you has been rendered unclean by a nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp, and he must not reenter the camp. Toward evening he shall bathe in water, and at sundown he may reenter the camp.  Further, there shall be an area for you outside the camp, where you may relieve yourself.  With your gear you shall have a spike, and when you have squatted you shall dig a hole with it and cover up your excrement.  Since the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you, let your camp be holy; let Him not find anything unseemly among you and turn away from you.

Deuteronomy 23:11-15 (Torah)

I have omitted the remaining laws pertaining to the un cleanliness of a woman, a man, fabric, and a home because the laws of purity may not be fulfilled, as long as the priesthood remains inactive; however, you can review them in Leviticus, chapter 12 through 15.

The Laws Pertaining To Virginity

      If a man seduces a virgin for whom the bride-price has not been paid, and lies with her, he must make her his wife by payment of a bride-price.  If her father refuses to give her to him, he must still weigh out silver in accordance with the bride-price for virgins.

Exodus 22:15-16 (Torah)

    A man marries a woman and cohabits with her.  Then he takes an aversion to her and makes up charges against her and defames her, saying, “I married this woman; but when I approached her, I found that she was not a virgin.”  In such a case, the girl’s father and mother shall produce the evidence of the girl’s virginity before the elders of the town at the gate.  And the girl’s father shall say to the elders, “I gave this man my daughter to wife, but he has taken an aversion to her, so he has made up charges, saying, ‘I did not find your daughter a virgin.' But here is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity!"  And they shall spread out the cloth before the elders of the town.  The elders of that town shall then take the man and flog him, and they shall fine him a hundred [shekels of] silver and give it to the girl’s father; for the man has defamed a virgin in Israel. Moreover, she shall remain his wife; he shall never have the right to divorce her.

     But if the charge proves true, the girl was found not to have been a virgin, then the girl shall be brought out to the entrance of her father’s house, and the men of her town shall stone her to death; for she did a shameful thing in Israel, committing fornication while under her father’s authority.  Thus you will sweep away evil from your midst.

Deuteronomy 22:13-21 (Torah)

     If a man comes upon a virgin who is not engaged and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered, the man who lay with her shall pay the girl’s father fifty [shekels of] silver, and she shall be his wife.  Because he has violated her, he can never have the right to divorce her.

Deuteronomy 22:28-29 (Torah)

Additionally:  Deuteronomy 22:23-27

The Laws Pertaining To Vows

     If a man makes a vow to the LORD or takes an oath imposing an obligation on himself, he shall not break his pledge; he must carry out all that has crossed his lips.

Numbers 30:3 (Torah)

     If a woman makes a vow to the LORD or assumes an obligation while still in her father’s household by reason of her youth, and her father learns of her vow or her self-imposed obligation and offers no objection, all her vows shall stand and every self-imposed obligation shall stand. But if her father restrains her on the day he finds out, none of her vows or self-imposed obligations shall stand; and the LORD will forgive her, since her father restrained her.

     If she should marry while her vow or the commitment to which she bound herself is still in force, and her husband learns of it and offers no objection on the date he finds out, her vows shall stand and her self-imposed obligations shall stand.  But if her husband restrains her on the day that he learns of it, he thereby annuls her vow which was in force or the commitment to which she bound herself; and the LORD will forgive her.―The vow of a widow or of a divorced woman, however, whatever she has imposed on herself, shall be binding upon her.―So, too, if, while in her husband’s household, she makes a vow or imposes an obligation on herself by oath, and her husband learns of it, yet offers no objection―thus failing to restrain her―all her vows shall stand and all her self-imposed obligations shall stand.  But if her husband does annul them on the day he finds out, then nothing that has crossed her lips shall stand, whether vows or self-imposed obligations. Her husband has annulled them, and the LORD will forgive her.  Every vow and every sworn obligation of self-denial may be upheld by her husband or annulled by her husband.  If her husband offers no objection from that day to the next, he has upheld all the vows or obligations she has assumed:  he has upheld them by offering no objection on the day he found out.  But if he annuls them after [the day] he finds out, he shall bear her guilt.

Numbers 30:4-16 (Torah)

     You shall not bring the fee of a whore or the pay of a *dog into the house of the LORD your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both are abhorrent to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 23:19 (Torah)

*A dog is referring to a male prostitute.

     When you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not put off fulfilling it, for the LORD your God will require it of you, and you will have incurred guilt; whereas you incur no guilt if you refrain from vowing.  You must fulfill what has crossed your lips and perform what you have voluntarily vowed to the LORD your God, having made the promise with your own mouth.  

Deuteronomy 23:22-24 (Torah)

The Laws Pertaining To Warfare

     When you are at war in your land against an aggressor who attacks you, you shall sound short blasts on the *trumpets, that you may be remembered before the LORD your God and be delivered from your enemies.

Numbers 10:9 (Torah)

*2 silver trumpets (Numbers 10:1)

     When you take the field against your enemies, and you see horses and chariots― forces larger than yours―Have no fear of them, for the LORD your God, who brought you from the land of Egypt, is with you.  Before you join battle, the priest shall come forward and address the troops.  He shall say to them. “Hear, O Israel!  You are about to join battle with your enemy. Let not your courage falter.  Do not be in fear, or in panic, or dread of them.  For it is the LORD your God who marches with you to do battle for you against your enemy, to bring you victory.”

     Then the officials shall address the troops, as follows:  “Is there anyone who has built a new house but has not dedicated it?  Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another dedicate it.  Is there anyone who has planted a vineyard but has never harvested it?  Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another harvest it.  Is there anyone who has paid the bride-price for a wife, but who has not yet married her? Let him go back to his home, lest he die in battle and another marry her.”  The officials shall go on addressing the troops and say, “Is there anyone afraid and disheartened?  Let him go back to his home, lest the courage of his comrades flag like his.”  When the officials have finished addressing the troops, army commanders shall assume command of the troops.  

Deuteronomy 20:1-9 (Torah)

     When you approach a town to attack it, you shall offer it terms of peace.  If it responds peaceable and lets you in, all the people present there shall serve you at forced labor.  If it does not surrender to you, but would join battle with you, you shall lay siege to it; and when the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, you shall put all its males to the sword.  You may, however, take as your booty the women, the children, the livestock, and everything in the town―all its spoil―and enjoy the use of the spoil of your enemy, which the LORD your God gives you.

Deuteronomy 20:10-14 (Torah)

       When in your war against a city you have to besiege it a long time in order to capture it, you must not destroy its trees, wielding the ax against them.  You may eat of them, but you must not cut them down.  Are trees of the field human to withdraw before you into the besieged city?  Only trees that you know do not yield food may be destroyed; you may cut them down for constructing siegeworks against the city that is waging war on you, until it has been reduced.

Deuteronomy 20:19-20 (Torah)

     When you take the field against your enemies, and the LORD your God delivers them into your power and you take some of them captive, and you see among the captives a beautiful woman and you desire her and would take her to wife, you shall bring her into your house, and she shall trim her hair, pare her nails, and discard her captive’s garb. She shall spend a month’s time in your house lamenting her father and mother; after that you may come to her and possess her, and she shall be your wife.  Then, should you no longer want her, you must release her outright.  You must not sell her for money:  since you had your will of her, you must not enslave her.

Deuteronomy 21:10-14 (Torah)

      When you go out as a troop against your enemies, be on your guard against anything *untoward.

Deuteronomy 23:10 (Torah)

*Difficult to guide, manage or work with, troublesome or unfavorable.  

     When a man has taken a bride, he shall not go out with the army or be assigned to it for any purpose; he shall be exempt one year for the sake of his household, to give happiness to the woman he has married.

Deuteronomy 24:5 (Torah)