Justice and Mercy
“You shall not spread a false report. Do not join the wicked by being a malicious witness. Psa 101:5Pro 19:5Deu 19:16-21Exo 20:16Mat 26:59-61Deu 5:20Lev 19:16Psa 35:11
You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd. Pro 1:10-11Pro 1:15Luk 23:23-24Job 31:34Mat 27:24-261Ki 19:10Deu 1:17Exo 23:6-7 And do not show favoritism to a poor man in his lawsuit. Jas 3:17Lev 19:15Psa 82:2-3Deu 1:17
If you encounter your enemy’s stray ox or donkey, you must return it to him. Deu 22:1-41Th 5:15Mat 5:44Rom 12:17-21Luk 6:27-28Pro 25:21Job 31:29-30Pro 24:17-18
If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it. Deu 22:4
You shall not deny justice to the poor in their lawsuits. Mal 3:5Deu 16:19Deu 27:19Ecc 5:8Exo 23:2-3Isa 10:1-2Jas 2:5-6Jer 5:28 Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent or the just, for I will not acquit the guilty. Eph 4:25Deu 27:25Exo 23:1Exo 34:7Rom 1:181Th 5:22Lev 19:11Deu 19:16-21
Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous. Deu 16:19Pro 17:23Isa 5:23Pro 15:271Sa 8:3Deu 10:17Ecc 7:7Psa 26:10
Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. Deu 27:19Exo 22:21Deu 24:14-18Mat 18:33Deu 10:19Exo 21:21Ezk 22:7Heb 2:17-18
Sabbath Laws
(Leviticus 25:1–7; Deuteronomy 15:1–6)
For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce, Lev 25:3-4 but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove. Lev 25:2-7Lev 25:11-12Lev 26:34-35Lev 25:20Lev 25:22
For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident. Luk 13:14Exo 20:8-11Exo 31:15-16Exo 34:21Exo 35:3Deu 5:13-15Isa 58:3
Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips. Jos 23:7Zec 13:2Deu 4:91Ti 4:16Hos 2:17Deu 12:3Jer 10:11Jos 22:5
The Three Feasts of Pilgrimage
(Leviticus 23:1–3)
Three times a year you are to celebrate a feast to Me. Deu 16:16Exo 23:17Exo 34:22-24Lev 23:16Lev 23:34Lev 23:5
You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread 1as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib 2you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed. Exo 34:20Luk 22:7Deu 16:16Num 28:16-25Pro 3:9-102Ki 23:21-23Deu 16:1-8Lev 23:5-8
You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest 3with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. Exo 34:22Lev 23:9-21Exo 22:29Lev 23:34-44Act 2:1Deu 16:9-15Jhn 7:2Jhn 7:37
And keep the Feast of Ingathering 4at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
Three times a year all your males are to appear before the Lord GOD. Deu 16:16Exo 34:23Deu 12:5Deu 31:11Exo 23:14Luk 2:42Psa 84:7
You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning. Exo 34:25Lev 2:11Deu 16:4Exo 12:10Exo 12:8Lev 7:15Exo 12:15Lev 7:12
Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God. Exo 34:26Deu 14:21Deu 26:10Exo 22:29Neh 10:35Deu 26:2Num 18:12-131Co 15:20
You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.
God’s Angel to Lead
(Deuteronomy 7:12–26)
Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared. Exo 33:14Psa 91:11Exo 32:34Exo 14:19Exo 33:2Isa 63:9Jhn 14:3Mat 25:34 Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him. Psa 78:56Psa 78:40Heb 12:25Jhn 10:30Jhn 10:38Eph 4:30Exo 3:14Heb 10:26-29
But if you will listen carefully to his voice and do everything I say, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a foe to your foes. Gen 12:3Deu 30:7Zec 2:8Jer 30:20Act 9:4-5Num 24:9 For My angel will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I will annihilate them. Exo 23:20Isa 5:13Gen 15:19-21Gen 34:2Exo 3:17Exo 32:2Jos 24:8-11
You must not bow down to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces. Exo 20:5Deu 12:30-31Num 33:52Deu 12:3Deu 7:52Ch 33:9Exo 32:20Lev 18:3
So you shall serve the LORD your God, and He will bless 5your bread and your water. And I will take away sickness from among you. Deu 7:15Exo 15:26Jos 22:5Isa 33:24Psa 103:3Deu 7:13Deu 10:12Deu 6:13 No woman in your land will miscarry or be barren; I will fulfill the number of your days. Deu 7:14Deu 28:4Job 5:26Job 21:10Isa 65:20Psa 107:38Psa 144:131Ch 23:1
I will send My terror ahead of you and throw into confusion every nation you encounter. I will make all your enemies turn and run. Deu 2:25Gen 35:5Deu 11:25Deu 7:23Exo 15:14-16Psa 18:401Sa 14:152Ch 14:14 I will send the hornet before you to drive the Hivites and Canaanites and Hittites out of your way. Deu 7:20Jos 24:11-12
I will not drive them out before you in a single year; otherwise the land would become desolate and wild animals would multiply against you. Deu 7:22Jdg 3:1-4Jos 17:12-13Jos 15:63Jos 16:10 Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.
And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea 6to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. 7 For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you will drive them out before you. Gen 15:18Deu 11:24Jos 21:44Jos 1:4Num 34:3-151Ki 4:24Jos 24:181Ki 4:21 You shall make no covenant with them or with their gods. Deu 7:2Exo 34:12Exo 34:15Deu 7:16Psa 106:352Co 6:15Jos 9:14-23Num 25:1-2 They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.” Psa 106:36Deu 7:16Exo 34:12Jdg 2:3Jos 23:13Deu 12:301Ki 14:161Sa 18:21