Quotes about Legacy
Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father’s strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.
— Deuteronomy 21:17
When brothers dwell together and one of them dies without a son, the widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother is to take her as his wife and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law for her.
— Deuteronomy 25:5
The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
— Deuteronomy 25:6
And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”
— Deuteronomy 25:10
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
— Deuteronomy 28:41
and so that He may establish you today as His people, and He may be your God as He promised you and as He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
— Deuteronomy 29:13
And the people will answer, ‘It is because they abandoned the covenant of the LORD, the God of their fathers, which He made with them when He brought them out of the land of Egypt.
— Deuteronomy 29:25
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
— Deuteronomy 29:29
he said to them, “I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to come and go, and the LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not cross the Jordan.’
— Deuteronomy 31:2
And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.
— Deuteronomy 31:16
So that very day Moses wrote down this song and taught it to the Israelites.
— Deuteronomy 31:22
His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the spot on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.
— Deuteronomy 32:5