'Law' in the Bible

And on the second day the heads of families of all the people and the priests and the Levites came together to Ezra the scribe, to give attention to the words of the law.

And they saw that it was recorded in the law that the Lord had given orders by Moses, that the children of Israel were to have tents for their living-places in the feast of the seventh month:

And day by day, from the first day till the last, he was reading from the book of the law of God. And they kept the feast for seven days: and on the eighth day there was a holy meeting, as it is ordered in the law.

And for a fourth part of the day, upright in their places, they were reading from the book of the law of their God; and for a fourth part of the day they were requesting forgiveness and worshipping the Lord their God.

And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant:

But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.

And gave witness against them so that you might make them come back again to your law: but their hearts were lifted up, and they gave no attention to your orders and went against your decisions (which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him), and turning their backs on you, made their necks stiff and did not give ear.

And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.

And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the door-keepers, the music-makers, the Nethinim, and all those who had made themselves separate from the peoples of the lands, to keep the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and wisdom;

They were united with their brothers, their rulers, and put themselves under a curse and an oath, to keep their steps in the way of God's law, which was given by Moses, the servant of God, and to keep and do all the orders of the Lord, our Lord, and his decisions and his rules;

And we, the priests and the Levites and the people, made selection, by the decision of the Lord, of those who were to take the wood offering into the house of God, by families at the regular times, year by year, to be burned on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is recorded in the law;

As well as the first of our sons and of our cattle, as it is recorded in the law, and the first lambs of our herds and of our flocks, which are to be taken to the house of our God, to the priests who are servants in the house of our God:

And on that day certain men were put over the rooms where the things which had been given were stored, for the lifted offerings and the first-fruits and the tenths, and to take into them the amounts, from the fields of every town, fixed by the law for the priests and the Levites: for Judah was glad on account of the priests and the Levites who were in their places.

So after hearing the law, they took out of Israel all the mixed people.

And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib, the chief priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: so I sent him away from me.

And the drinking was in keeping with the law; no one was forced: for the king had given orders to all the chief servants of his house to do as was pleasing to every man.

And the king said to the wise men, who had knowledge of the times, (for this was the king's way with all who were expert in law and in the giving of decisions:

What is to be done by law to Vashti the queen, because she has not done what King Ahasuerus, by his servants, gave her orders to do?

Now every girl, when her turn came, had to go in to King Ahasuerus, after undergoing, for a space of twelve months, what was ordered by the law for the women (for this was the time necessary for making them clean, that is, six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet perfumes and such things as are needed for making women clean):

It is common knowledge among all the king's servants and the people of every part of the kingdom, that if anyone, man or woman, comes to the king in his inner room without being sent for, there is only one law for him, that he is to be put to death; only those to whom the king's rod of gold is stretched out may keep their lives: but I have not been sent for to come before the king these thirty days.

Go, get together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and go without food for me, taking no food or drink night or day for three days: and I and my women will do the same; and so I will go in to the king, which is against the law: and if death is to be my fate, then let it come.

Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen, and in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their seed, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help.

The order given by Esther gave the force of law to the rules about the Purim; and it was recorded in the book.

If a man was desiring to go to law with him, he would not be able to give him an answer to one out of a thousand questions.

If it is a question of strength, he says, Here I am! and if it is a question of a cause at law, he says, Who will give me a fixed day?

When he made a law for the rain, and a way for the thunder-flames;

If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

But whose delight is in the law of the Lord, and whose mind is on his law day and night.

The law of the Lord is good, giving new life to the soul: the witness of the Lord is certain, giving wisdom to the foolish.

The law of his God is in his heart; he will never make a false step.

My delight is to do your pleasure, O my God; truly, your law is in my heart.

Give ear, O my people, to my law; let your ears be bent down to the words of my mouth.

He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

For this is a rule for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

If his children give up my law, and are not ruled by my decisions;

Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;

What part with you has the seat of sin, which makes evil into a law?

His voice came to them from the pillar of cloud; they kept his witness, and the law which he gave them.

And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;

Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord.

Let my eyes be open to see the wonders of your law.

Take from me every false way; and in mercy give me your law.

Give me wisdom, so that I may keep your law; going after it with all my heart.

So that I may keep your law for ever and ever;

The men of pride have made great sport of me; but I have not been turned from your law.

I am burning with wrath, because of the sinners who have given up your law.

I have given thought to your name in the night, O Lord, and have kept your law.

The cords of evil-doers are round me; but I have kept in mind your law.

Their hearts are shut up with fat; but my delight is in your law.

The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver.

Let your gentle mercies come to me, so that I may have life; for your law is my delight.

The men of pride, who are turned away from your law, have put nets for me.

If your law had not been my delight, my troubles would have put an end to me.

O what love I have for your law! I give thought to it all the day.

My soul is ever in danger; but I still keep the memory of your law.

I am a hater of men of doubting mind; but I am a lover of your law.

It is time, O Lord, for you to let your work be seen; for they have made your law without effect.

Rivers of water are flowing from my eyes, because men do not keep your law.

Your righteousness is an unchanging righteousness, and your law is certain.

Those who have evil designs against me come near; they are far from your law.

O see my trouble, and be my saviour; for I keep your law in my mind,

I am full of hate and disgust for false words; but I am a lover of your law.

Great peace have lovers of your law; they have no cause for falling.

All my desire has been for your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my delight.

Do not take up a cause at law against a man for nothing, if he has done you no wrong.

He who makes sport of the word will come to destruction, but the respecter of the law will be rewarded.

He who gives attention to the law of right will get good; and whoever puts his faith in the Lord is happy.

He who keeps the law keeps his soul; but death will be the fate of him who takes no note of the word.

Do not be quick to go to law about what you have seen, for what will you do in the end, when your neighbour has put you to shame?

Those who have no respect for the law give praise to the evil-doer; but such as keep the law are against him.

He who keeps the law is a wise son, but he who keeps company with feasters puts shame on his father.

As for the man whose ear is turned away from hearing the law, even his prayer is disgusting.

If a wise man goes to law with a foolish man, he may be angry or laughing, but there will be no rest.

Where there is no vision, the people are uncontrolled; but he who keeps the law will be happy.

For fear that through drinking they may come to have no respect for the law, wrongly judging the cause of those who are in trouble.

Her mouth is open to give out wisdom, and the law of mercy is on her tongue.

If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.

I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.

Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.

Give ear to the word of the Lord, you rulers of Sodom; let your hearts be turned to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah.

And the peoples will say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob: and he will give us knowledge of his ways, and we will be guided by his word; for out of Zion the law will go out, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

For this cause, as the waste of the grain is burned up by tongues of fire, and as the dry grass goes down before the flame, so their root will be like the dry stems of grain, and their flower will go up in dust: because they have gone against the law of the Lord of armies, and have given no honour to the word of the Holy One of Israel.

He who takes up my cause is near; who will go to law with me? let us come together before the judge: who is against me? let him come near to me.

Give ear to me, you who have knowledge of righteousness, in whose heart is my law; have no fear of the evil words of men, and give no thought to their curses.

The priests did not say, Where is the Lord? and those who were expert in the law had no knowledge of me: and the rulers did evil against me, and the prophets became prophets of the Baal, going after things without value.

Give ear, O earth: see, I will make evil come on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not given attention to my words, and they would have nothing to do with my law.

Truly, the stork in the heavens is conscious of her fixed times; the dove and the swallow and the crane keep to the times of their coming; but my people have no knowledge of the law of the Lord.

How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.

And the Lord said, Because they have given up my law which I put before them, giving no attention to my voice and not being guided by it;

Then you will say to them, Because your fathers have given me up, says the Lord, and have gone after other gods and become their servants and their worshippers, and have given me up and have not kept my law;

And you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: If you do not give ear to me and go in the way of my law which I have put before you,

But this is the agreement which I will make with the people of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my law in their inner parts, writing it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.

And they came in and took it for their heritage, but they did not give ear to your voice, and were not ruled by your law; they have done nothing of all you gave them orders to do: so you have made all this evil come on them:

Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.

Because you have been burning perfumes, and sinning against the Lord, and have not given ear to the voice of the Lord, or gone in the way of his law or his rules or his orders; for this reason this evil has come on you, as it is today.

Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.

We have done wrong and gone against your law; we have not had your forgiveness.

Destruction will come on destruction, and one story after another; and the vision of the prophet will be shamed, and knowledge of the law will come to an end among the priests, and wisdom among the old.

And in you one man has done what was disgusting with his neighbour's wife; and another has made his daughter-in-law unclean; and another has done wrong to his sister, his father's daughter.