Quotes about Community
And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
— Deuteronomy 16:14
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
The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.
— Deuteronomy 17:7
Then all the people will hear and be afraid, and will no longer behave arrogantly.
— Deuteronomy 17:13
When you enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,”
— Deuteronomy 17:14
Now this is the situation regarding the manslayer who flees to one of these cities to save his life, having killed his neighbor accidentally, without intending to harm him:
— Deuteronomy 19:4
If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
— Deuteronomy 19:5
the elders of his city must send for him, bring him back, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.
— Deuteronomy 19:12
Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you.
— Deuteronomy 19:20
your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the neighboring cities.
— Deuteronomy 21:2
Then the elders of the city nearest the victim shall take a heifer that has never been yoked or used for work,
— Deuteronomy 21:3
his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
— Deuteronomy 21:19