Monday, August 23, 2010

375. Not to extinguish this fire.

Status: Inactive
N-081
"And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings." ~ Lev. 6:12

562. A judge must not pervert a case involving a stranger or orphan.

Status: Active
N-280
"Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow's raiment to pledge: But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing." ~ Deut. 24:17-18

Friday, August 20, 2010

571. Carefully interrogate the witness

Status: Active
P-179
"Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;" ~ Deut. 13:14

577. Punish the false witnesses as they tried to punish the defendant

Status: Active      
PC-180
"If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong; Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days; And the judges shall make diligent inquisition: and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother; Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you." ~ Deut. 19:16-19

573. Not to accept testimony from a lone witness.

Status: Active
N-288
"One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established." ~ Deut. 19:15

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

600. Not to forget Amalek's atrocities.

Status: Inactive
"How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God." ~ Deut. 25:18

599. Remember what Amalek did to the Israeli people.

Status: Inactive
"Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt" ~ Deut. 25:17

598. To wipe out the descendants of Amalek

Status: Inactive
"Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it." ~ Deut. 25:19

Thursday, August 5, 2010

22. To learn Torah

Status: Active
"And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up." ~ Deuteronomy 6:6-7