Quotes about Community
When you enter your neighbor’s vineyard, you may eat your fill of grapes, but you must not put any in your basket.
— Deuteronomy 23:24
When you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pluck the heads of grain with your hand, but you must not put a sickle to your neighbor’s grain.
— Deuteronomy 23:25
When you lend anything to your neighbor, do not enter his house to collect security.
— Deuteronomy 24:10
If he is a poor man, you must not go to sleep with the security in your possession;
— Deuteronomy 24:12
When you beat the olives from your trees, you must not go over the branches again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
— Deuteronomy 24:20
When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you must not go over the vines again. What remains will be for the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow.
— Deuteronomy 24:21
Then the elders of his city shall summon him and speak with him. If he persists and says, “I do not want to marry her,”
— Deuteronomy 25:8
So you shall rejoice—you, the Levite, and the foreigner dwelling among you—in all the good things the LORD your God has given to you and your household.
— Deuteronomy 26:11
Then Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people: “Keep all the commandments I am giving you today.
— Deuteronomy 27:1
‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
— Deuteronomy 27:17
‘Cursed is he who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
— Deuteronomy 27:24
your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—
— Deuteronomy 29:11