Quotes about Tradition
Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.
— Deuteronomy 16:16
then you shall bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,
— Deuteronomy 21:12
Then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring the proof of her virginity to the city elders at the gate
— Deuteronomy 22:15
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
his brother’s widow shall go up to him in the presence of the elders, remove his sandal, spit in his face, and declare, “This is what is done to the man who will not maintain his brother’s line.”
— Deuteronomy 25:9
And his family name in Israel will be called “The House of the Unsandaled.”
— Deuteronomy 25:10
Remember the days of old; consider the years long past. Ask your father, and he will tell you, your elders, and they will inform you.
— Deuteronomy 32:7
Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.
— Joshua 5:5
And Joshua raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones he circumcised. Until this time they were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.
— Joshua 5:7
The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.
— Joshua 5:11
that each year the young women of Israel go out for four days to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite.
— Judges 11:40