Quotes about Equality
A woman must not wear men’s clothing, and a man must not wear women’s clothing, for whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD your God.
— Deuteronomy 22:5
Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.
— Deuteronomy 22:10
Do nothing to the young woman, because she has committed no sin worthy of death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
— Deuteronomy 22:26
Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
— Deuteronomy 23:7
Let him live among you wherever he chooses, in the town of his pleasing. Do not oppress him.
— Deuteronomy 23:16
Do not oppress a hired hand who is poor and needy, whether he is a brother or a foreigner residing in one of your towns.
— Deuteronomy 24:14
Do not deny justice to the foreigner or the fatherless, and do not take a widow’s cloak as security.
— Deuteronomy 24:17
He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.
— Deuteronomy 25:3
You shall not have two differing weights in your bag, one heavy and one light.
— Deuteronomy 25:13
You shall not have two differing measures in your house, one large and one small.
— Deuteronomy 25:14
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
— Deuteronomy 27:19
But Zelophehad son of Hepher (the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh) had no sons but only daughters. These are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
— Joshua 17:3