Quotes about Culture
Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.
— Genesis 34:1
There Judah saw the daughter of a Canaanite man named Shua, and he took her as a wife and slept with her.
— Genesis 38:2
They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.
— Genesis 43:32
But Moses replied, “It would not be right to do that, because the sacrifices we offer to the LORD our God would be detestable to the Egyptians. If we offer sacrifices that are detestable before the Egyptians, will they not stone us?
— Exodus 8:26
Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.
— Numbers 12:1
but spare for yourselves every girl who has never had relations with a man.
— Numbers 31:18
Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
— Deuteronomy 7:3
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
then the man who lay with her must pay the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she must become his wife because he has violated her. He must not divorce her as long as he lives.
— Deuteronomy 22:29
No daughter or son of Israel is to be a shrine prostitute.
— Deuteronomy 23:17
And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
— Judges 3:6