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Exodus 23:4
If you see your enemy's cow or donkey running loose, take it back to him. Verse ConceptsDuties To EnemiesAnimals Going Astrayfriendliness

Deuteronomy 22:1
If your brother's bull or sheep stray do not ignore them. Bring them back to your brother. Verse ConceptsMissing Someonewandering

Exodus 13:13
It will cost you a sheep or a goat to buy any firstborn donkey back from Jehovah. You must break the donkey's neck if you do not buy it back. You must also buy every firstborn son back from Jehovah. Verse ConceptsRedemption, In Everyday LifeDislocatingRules About Killing Animalsredeemed

Exodus 34:20
It will cost you a sheep or a goat to buy back the firstborn donkey. If you do not buy it back, then you must break the donkey's neck. You must buy back every firstborn of your sons. No one may come into my presence without an offering. Verse ConceptsDonkeysLambsRansomRedemption, In Everyday LifeDislocatingEmpty HandedRules About Killing Animals

Deuteronomy 22:2-3
If you are not acquainted with your brother, or you just do not know him, then you should bring it home to your house. Keep it with you until your brother looks for it. Then you should give it to him. You should do the same with his donkey and his garment. You should do likewise with anything lost by your brother found by you. Do not ignore it.

Deuteronomy 22:10
Do not plow with a bull and a donkey together. Verse ConceptsDonkeysPloughingCaring For AnimalsTilling The SoilMixing MaterialsNetworking

Deuteronomy 5:14
The seventh day is the Sabbath of Jehovah your God: in it you should not do any work. Your son and daughter should not work. Your manservant and maidservant should not work. Your ox, donkey, cattle or any stranger living with you should not work. Your manservant and maidservant should rest as much as you do. Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And Women

Exodus 20:17
Do not covet (desire) another man's house. Do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns. Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofCovenant breakersdesiresGreed, Believers' Response ToLaw, Ten CommandmentsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinProperty, HousesLiving In HousesServants Of PeopleMarriage ControlledEighth Commandment

Exodus 23:5
If your enemy's donkey falls under its load, help him get the donkey to its feet again. Do not just walk away. Verse Conceptsevil, believers' responses toResponsibility, For God's WorldAnimal RightsHeavy BurdensPeople HelpingLoving Your Enemies

1 Corinthians 9:9
It is written in the Law of Moses: You should not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treads (threshes) out the grain. Does God care only about oxen? Verse ConceptsMoses, Significance OfThreshingMuzzlingAnimals, God's Care OfOxenSealing ThingsBinding As AnimalsWritten In The Lawthe Law of mosesPerspectivemuscles

Deuteronomy 25:4
Do not muzzle the bull while he is threshing. Verse ConceptsBeing FairGrainMinistry, In The ChurchRespect, For EnvironmentResponsibility, For God's WorldThreshingUnkindnessWagesAnimals, Cruelty TowardsCaring For AnimalsMuzzlingAnimal RightsAnimals, God's Care OfBinding As AnimalsSpecial Revelation

Exodus 23:4
If you see your enemy's cow or donkey running loose, take it back to him. Verse ConceptsDuties To EnemiesAnimals Going Astrayfriendliness

Deuteronomy 22:1-2
If your brother's bull or sheep stray do not ignore them. Bring them back to your brother. If you are not acquainted with your brother, or you just do not know him, then you should bring it home to your house. Keep it with you until your brother looks for it. Then you should give it to him.

Deuteronomy 5:21
Do not desire another man's wife; do not covet another man's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his donkey, or any thing that belongs to him.' Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofAgriculture, RestrictionsdesiresGreed, Believers' Response ToLaw, Ten CommandmentsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinLiving In HousesServants Of PeopleMarriage Controlled

Exodus 20:17
Do not covet (desire) another man's house. Do not desire his wife, his slaves, his cattle, his donkeys, or anything else that he owns. Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofCovenant breakersdesiresGreed, Believers' Response ToLaw, Ten CommandmentsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinProperty, HousesLiving In HousesServants Of PeopleMarriage ControlledEighth Commandment

Exodus 23:12
Work six days a week. Do no work on the seventh day. Allow your slaves and the foreigners who work for you and even your animals to rest. Verse ConceptsOxenDonkeysHolidayLaw, OtSlavery, In OtEmployeesRecreationAliens, Believers DutyAnimals, Types OfThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSix DaysDay 7Doing One's WorkNo Work On Feast DaysSabbaths InstitutedRestrelaxation

Deuteronomy 5:14
The seventh day is the Sabbath of Jehovah your God: in it you should not do any work. Your son and daughter should not work. Your manservant and maidservant should not work. Your ox, donkey, cattle or any stranger living with you should not work. Your manservant and maidservant should rest as much as you do. Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And Women

Deuteronomy 22:10
Do not plow with a bull and a donkey together. Verse ConceptsDonkeysPloughingCaring For AnimalsTilling The SoilMixing MaterialsNetworking

Deuteronomy 22:4
You should not see your brothers donkey or his bull fallen down on the way, and pay no attention to them. Help him lift it to its feet. Verse ConceptsRespect, For EnvironmentResponsibility, For God's WorldRoadsAnimals Falling

Exodus 21:35-36
If one man's ox hurts another's so that it dies, then they shall sell the live ox and divide its price equally. They should divide the dead ox. If it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, yet its owner has not confined it, he shall surely pay ox for ox, and the dead animal shall become his.

Exodus 21:28-32
If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox shall surely be stoned and its flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox shall go unpunished. If an ox was previously in the habit of goring and its owner has been warned, yet he does not confine it and it kills a man or a woman, the ox shall be stoned and its owner also shall be put to death. If a ransom is demanded of him, then he shall give for the redemption of his life whatever is demanded of him. read more.
Whether it gores a son or a daughter, it shall be done to him according to the same rule. If the ox gores a male or female slave, the owner shall give his or her master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

Exodus 22:9-13
There is a dispute over the ownership of a bull, a donkey, a sheep, an article of clothing, and any other lost property which two people claim as their own. Both people must bring their case to God. The one whom God declares guilty must make up for his neighbor's loss with double the amount. Someone gives his neighbor a donkey, a bull, a sheep, or any other kind of animal to keep for him, and it dies, is injured, or is captured in war, and there are no witnesses. The case between them must be settled by swearing an oath to Jehovah that the neighbor did not take the other person's animal. The owner must accept the oath. The neighbor does not have to make up for the loss. read more.
However, if the animal was stolen from the neighbor, he must make up for the owner's loss. If a wild animal killed the neighbor's animal he must bring in the dead body of the wild animal as evidence. He does not have to make up for an animal that has been killed.

Leviticus 7:23
Tell the Israelites: 'Never eat any fat from bulls, sheep, or goats. Verse ConceptsSheepSanitation, FoodFat Of AnimalsForbidden Food

Exodus 22:4
If the stolen animal is found alive in his possession, whether it is a bull, donkey, or a sheep, he must make up for the loss with double the amount. Verse ConceptsRestitutionDouble PenaltyLiving ThingsRules About Booty

Deuteronomy 14:29
This food is for the Levites, since they own no property, and for the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. They are to come and get all they need. Do this, and Jehovah your God will bless you in everything you do. Verse ConceptsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSatisfactionSaints, Care For The PoorWidows, Should BeLoving ForeignersGod Will BlessNo Earthly InheritancePeople Helping Orphansfriendliness

Deuteronomy 16:11
Enjoy yourselves in the presence of Jehovah your God along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites who live in your cities, the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you. Enjoy yourselves at the place Jehovah your God will choose as a dwelling for his name. Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsWidowsWidows, Should BeRejoicingForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And RejoicingA Place For God's Name

Deuteronomy 26:11
You, the Levite and the alien among you will rejoice in all the good Jehovah your God has given you and your household. Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfJoy, Of IsraelLoving ForeignersEating Drinking And Rejoicing

Leviticus 19:10
Do not glean your vineyard. Do not gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard. Leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am Jehovah your God. Verse ConceptsGrapesOppression, God's Attitude ToPoverty, Remedies ForRightsVineyardStrangersGleaningLoving ForeignersThe Lord Is GodLaws About AgricultureAliens

Leviticus 23:22
When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields. Do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left. Leave them for poor people and foreigners. Jehovah is your God.' Verse ConceptsGleaningForeignersethics, socialHarvestLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPoverty, Remedies ForSowing And ReapingAliens, Believers DutyCapitalismStrangersLoving ForeignersThe Lord Is GodLaws About AgricultureEconomicsThe poorStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliensFarmingFeeding The Poor

Deuteronomy 24:19-22
When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. When you beat the olives from your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. read more.
You must remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. I am commanding you to do this.

Leviticus 17:8
Tell them: 'If Israelites or foreigners make burnt offerings or sacrifices, Verse ConceptsForeignersForeigners Included In The LawStrangers in israel

Leviticus 22:18
Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites, and tell them: 'Israelites or foreigners may bring burnt offerings to Jehovah for anything they vowed or as freewill offerings. Verse ConceptsForeigners Included In The Law

Numbers 15:14
Make a food offering, an odor that pleases Jehovah. If foreigners live among you, whether on a temporary or a permanent basis, they are to observe the same regulations. Verse ConceptsSmellsAromasAltarsForeigners Permitted At The FeastsForeigners Included In The LawRefreshing God

Exodus 20:10
The seventh day is a Sabbath dedicated to Jehovah your God. Do not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestIndustryStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And WomenSabbaths InstitutedStrangers in israel

Exodus 23:12
Work six days a week. Do no work on the seventh day. Allow your slaves and the foreigners who work for you and even your animals to rest. Verse ConceptsOxenDonkeysHolidayLaw, OtSlavery, In OtEmployeesRecreationAliens, Believers DutyAnimals, Types OfThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSix DaysDay 7Doing One's WorkNo Work On Feast DaysSabbaths InstitutedRestrelaxation

Deuteronomy 5:14
The seventh day is the Sabbath of Jehovah your God: in it you should not do any work. Your son and daughter should not work. Your manservant and maidservant should not work. Your ox, donkey, cattle or any stranger living with you should not work. Your manservant and maidservant should rest as much as you do. Verse ConceptsServanthood, In SocietyWork, And RestStrangersThe Seventh Day Of The WeekForeigners Included In The LawDay 7No Work On Feast DaysRegulations For Men And Women

Exodus 22:21
Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner. Remember that you were foreigners in Egypt. Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtCruelty, God's attitude toForeignersAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstLaw, OtHospitality, A Duty Of God's PeopleOppression, Nature OfRightsSensitivitySympathyAliens, Believers DutyStrangersOppressing ForeignersTroubling Groups Of PeopleStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliensAbuseharassment

Exodus 23:9
Do not mistreat a foreigner. You know how it feels to be a foreigner. After all you were foreigners in Egypt. Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtCruelty, God's attitude toForeignersCovenant breakersethics, socialAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstHospitality, A Duty Of God's PeopleOppression, Nature OfOutsidersSensitivitySympathyAliens, Believers DutyExperimental KnowledgeAccepting OthersOppressing ForeignersTroubling Groups Of PeopleImmigrantsAliens

Leviticus 19:33
Never mistreat a foreigner living in your land. Verse ConceptsForeignersLaw, OtAliens, Believers DutySojourningStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliens

Deuteronomy 1:16
I charged your judges to hear the cases between your countrymen and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger with him. Verse ConceptsCourtsJudgesMagistratesJudging RightlyForeigners Included In The Law

Deuteronomy 24:17
Do not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan. Do not take a widow's garment in pledge. Verse ConceptsForeignersethics, socialSocial JusticeOppression, Nature OfOrphansPledgesWidowsWidows, Should Not BeAliens, Believers DutyOppressing ForeignersInstruction About ClothesLaws About PledgesAliens

Deuteronomy 10:19
Love those who are aliens. For you were also aliens in the land of Egypt. Verse ConceptsForeignersLaw, OtLove, For One AnotherSympathyAliens, Believers DutyBrotherly LoveLoving ForeignersLove Your Neighbour!Strangers in israelImmigrantsAliens

Leviticus 19:34
Foreigners living among you will be like your own people. Love them as you love yourself, because you were foreigners living in Egypt. I am Jehovah your God. Verse ConceptsForeignersLove, For One AnotherAliens, Believers DutyBrotherly LoveLoving ForeignersWhat Foreigners Are LikeReckoned As ForeignersForeigners Included In The LawThe Lord Is GodLove Your Neighbour!Strangers in israelCitizensImmigrantsAliensfriendliness

Deuteronomy 31:12
Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town. Assemble them that they may hear and learn and respect Jehovah your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this Law. Verse ConceptsForeignersCovenant breakersdiscipleship, nature ofLearning From Other PeopleMale And FemaleOutsidersAliens, Believers DutyAssembling IsraelForeigners Included Among The PeopleKeep The Commandments!Aliens

Joshua 8:32-35
He wrote upon the stones a copy of the Law of Moses. He did this in the presence of the children of Israel. All Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on both sides of the Ark before the priests. The Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; Half of the people stood on Mount Gerizim. And half of them stood on Mount Ebal. As Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. Afterward he read all the words of the Law, the blessings and cursing, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. read more.
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.

Leviticus 25:47-48
Suppose a foreigner living with you becomes rich, while some Israelites become poor and sell themselves as slaves to that foreigner or to a member of that foreigner's family. He has the right to be set free by a relative, such as a brother.

Leviticus 25:44-45
You may have male and female slaves, but buy them from the nations around you. You may also buy the children of the foreigners who are living among you. Such children born in your land may become your property.

Leviticus 17:10-12
If Israelites or foreigners eat any blood, I will condemn them and exclude them from the people. This is because life of every living thing is in the blood. I have given this blood to you to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with me on the altar. Blood is needed to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with me.' That is why I have said to the people of Israel: 'Neither you nor foreigners should ever eat blood.'

Deuteronomy 17:15
you shall surely set a king over you whom Jehovah your God chooses. It will be one from among your countrymen. You may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman. Verse ConceptsForeignersStrangersLaws Restricting ForeignersStrangers in israel

Deuteronomy 14:21
Do not eat anything that dies by itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, so that he may eat it. You may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk. Verse ConceptsForeignersFindingMilkRitual LawEcologyStrangersYoung AnimalAnimal MothersDeath Of CreaturesCorpses Of AnimalsLaws Restricting ForeignersForbidden Foodnatural Deathpork

Deuteronomy 23:20
You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your brother (countrymen) you shall not charge interest. That way Jehovah your God will bless you in all that you undertake in the land you are about to possess. Verse ConceptsBankruptcyForeignersInterestStrangersLaws Restricting Foreigners

Exodus 12:43-44
Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron: This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat of it. After you have circumcised your purchased slave he may eat of it.

Leviticus 25:35
If an Israelite becomes poor and cannot support himself, you should help him. He must live with you as a stranger without a permanent home. Verse ConceptsLiberalityethics, socialGenerosity, HumanGenerosity, Used TowardsLove To Others Shown InStrangersPoor PeopleLoving Foreigners

Leviticus 24:22
This law applies to all of you. It applies to Israelites and to foreigners living among you. I am Jehovah your God.' Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtForeignersAliens, Believers DutyStrangersForeigners Included In The LawThe Lord Is GodStrangers in israelAliens

Leviticus 24:16
However those who curse Jehovah's name must be put to death. The whole congregation must stone them to death. It makes no difference whether they are Israelites or foreigners. Whoever curses (abuses) Jehovah's name must die. Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyStrangersProfaning God's NameForeigners Included In The LawInstructions About StoningDeath Penalty For Heresy

Leviticus 20:2
Tell the Israelites: 'If Israelites or foreigners living among you give one of their children as a sacrifice to the god Molech, they must be put to death. The common people must stone them to death. Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyPunishment, Legal Aspects OfStonesIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfAliens, Believers DutyStrangersInstructions About StoningDeath Penalty For Heresy

Numbers 35:15
These six cities will be places of refuge for Israelites, foreigners, and strangers among you. Anyone who unintentionally kills another person may flee to these cities. Verse ConceptsManslaughterStrangersAccidental KillingsForeigners Included In The LawUnintentionalAliens

Leviticus 19:10
Do not glean your vineyard. Do not gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard. Leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am Jehovah your God. Verse ConceptsGrapesOppression, God's Attitude ToPoverty, Remedies ForRightsVineyardStrangersGleaningLoving ForeignersThe Lord Is GodLaws About AgricultureAliens

Deuteronomy 24:21
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. Verse ConceptsGrapesVineyardDoing Things Twice

Leviticus 25:5
Do not even harvest the grain that grows by itself without being planted. Do not gather the grapes from your unpruned vines. It is a year of complete rest for the land.

Leviticus 25:11
That fiftieth year will be your jubilee year. Do not plant or harvest what grows by itself or pick grapes from the vines in the land. Verse ConceptsLaws About AgricultureReaping What You Sow

Exodus 23:11
Let your land rest the seventh year. Do not harvest anything that grows on it. The poor may eat what grows there. The wild animals may have what is left. Do the same with your vineyards and your olive trees. Verse Conceptsethics, socialLeisure, Nature And Purpose OfPoverty, Attitudes TowardsPoverty, Remedies ForVineyardOrchardsUnusedAgricultureRestFarming

Leviticus 25:4
But the seventh year is to be a sabbath year of complete rest for the land. It is a year dedicated to Jehovah. Do not plant your fields or prune your vineyards. Verse ConceptsSabbatical YearAgricultureRestFarmingoverworking

Deuteronomy 23:24
When you enter your neighbor's vineyard you may eat grapes until you are full. But you shall not put any in your basket. Verse ConceptsFraudCovenant breakersBaskets, Uses OfGrapesVineyard

Deuteronomy 20:6
Have you planted a vineyard and not used its fruits? Go home to your house and vineyard. If you die in battle another man will use its fruit. Verse ConceptsBattlesEnjoyment, Material ThingsHappinessVineyardPlanting VineyardsCultivationPossibility Of Death

Deuteronomy 22:9
Do not sow your vineyard with two kinds of seed, or all the produce of the seed that you have sown and the increase of the vineyard will become defiled. Verse ConceptsCropsSeedSowing And ReapingVineyardMixing MaterialsPlanting SeedsFarmingSeedsSowing Seedsnegativitysowing

Leviticus 19:25
You may eat the fruit in the fifth year. Do this to make the trees produce more for you. I am Jehovah your God. Verse ConceptsIncreasing FruitThe Lord Is GodFifthFood Permitted

Leviticus 19:24
All the fruit will be a holy offering of praise to Jehovah in the fourth year. Verse ConceptsPraise To God Is Fitting

Leviticus 19:23
When you come into the land and plant all kinds of fruit trees, you must not eat the fruit for the first three years. Verse ConceptsForeskinsCultivationThree YearsEating Forbidden FoodFirst fruits

Exodus 22:5
Someone lets his livestock graze in a field or a vineyard. They stray and graze in another person's field. He must make up for what the damaged field was expected to produce. If he lets them ruin the whole field with their grazing, he must make up from his own field for the loss with the best from his field and vineyard. Verse ConceptsAgriculture, RestrictionsCarelessnessShepherds, As OccupationsVineyardAnimals Eating

Deuteronomy 14:28
At the end of every third year bring the tithe of all your crops and store it in your towns. Verse ConceptsGiving, Of Possessionsethics, socialAlmsgivingAltruismCharityThree YearsEvery Three YearsTithes And Offeringfriendliness

Deuteronomy 26:12-13
Finish paying all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing. Then you shall give it to the Levite, the stranger, and the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied. Say before Jehovah your God: 'I have removed the sacred portion from my house. I also have given it to the Levite and the alien, the orphan and the widow, according to all your commandments that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed or forgotten any of your commandments.

Deuteronomy 16:11
Enjoy yourselves in the presence of Jehovah your God along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites who live in your cities, the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you. Enjoy yourselves at the place Jehovah your God will choose as a dwelling for his name. Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsWidowsWidows, Should BeRejoicingForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And RejoicingA Place For God's Name

Deuteronomy 16:14
Enjoy yourselves at the festival along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your cities. Verse ConceptsWidowsForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And Rejoicing

Deuteronomy 27:19
Cursed is he who withholds justice due an alien, orphan, and widow. The people all say: Amen. Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtForeignersethics, socialSocial JusticeOppression, Nature OfOrphansResponsibility, For God's WorldWidowsAliens, Believers DutyStrangersJusticeOppressing ForeignersAmenNo Justice

Exodus 22:22
Do not mistreat any widow or orphan. Verse Conceptsethics, socialAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstOppression, Nature OfRightsWidowsWidows, Should Not BeTroubling Groups Of PeopleGod Caring For OrphansSocial dutiesHurtResponsibilityAbuseFathers Responsibilitiesconsequenceshurtingharassment

Deuteronomy 25:5-6
When brothers live together and one of them dies without a son the wife of the deceased shall not marry outside the family to a strange man. Her husband's brother shall marry her and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her. The firstborn son she bears will assume the name of the dead brother. That way his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

Deuteronomy 24:17
Do not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan. Do not take a widow's garment in pledge. Verse ConceptsForeignersethics, socialSocial JusticeOppression, Nature OfOrphansPledgesWidowsWidows, Should Not BeAliens, Believers DutyOppressing ForeignersInstruction About ClothesLaws About PledgesAliens

Deuteronomy 24:19
When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. Verse ConceptsForeignersBinding cornBereaved, Care ForGrainOrphansSowing And ReapingWidowsAutumnAliensSuccess And Hard Work

Leviticus 22:13
A widowed or divorced daughter who has no children and who has returned to live in her father's house as a dependent may eat the food her father receives as a priest. Only a member of a priestly family may eat any of it. Verse ConceptsSinglenessDivorceFathers And Daughters

Leviticus 21:14
He must not marry a widow, a divorced woman, a woman who has lost her virginity, or a prostitute. He may only marry a virgin from his own people. Verse ConceptsProfanityDivorceMarriage Controlledvirginity

Numbers 30:9
A widow or a divorced woman must keep every vow she makes and every promise to abstain from something. Verse Conceptsdivorce, in OTUnfaithfulness, To PeopleDivorce

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