Tag: Laws

LAWS CONCERNING LEVIRATE MARRIAGE

Laws Concerning Levirate Marriage. “If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, the widow of the deceased shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall be intimate with her after taking her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.

LAWS ABOUT LEPROSY

Laws about leprosy. The priest shall look at the diseased spot on the skin of his body, and if the hair in the infection has turned white and the infection appears deeper than the skin of his, it is an infection of leprosy; when the priest has looked at him, he shall pronounce him [ceremonially] unclean.

LAWS OF CONDUCT AND WORSHIP

ou shall not follow a crowd to do [something] evil, nor shall you testify at a trial or in a dispute so as to side with a crowd in order to pervert justice; nor shall you favor or be partial to a poor man in his dispute [simply because he is poor].

LAWS ABOUT SOCIAL JUSTICE

You shall not harm or oppress any widow or fatherless child.
If you harm or oppress them in any way, and they cry at all to Me [for help], I will most certainly hear their cry;
and My wrath shall be kindled and burn; I will kill you with the sword, and your wives shall become widows and your children fatherless.