Moses
Prophet and lawgiver of Judaism
Sayings by Moses
When a man has taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he has taken.
You shall not let any of your children pass through the fire to Molech.
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death.
You shall not round off the hair on your temples or mar the edges of your beard.
If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.
If you come across a bird’s nest beside the road, and the mother is sitting on the young or on the eggs, do not take the mother with the young.
You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die.
You shall not plant your field with two kinds of seed.
If a man has two wives, and he loves one but not the other, and both bear him sons, he must not give the rights of the firstborn to the son of the wife he loves.
Whoever takes a human life shall surely be put to death.
If anyone injures his neighbor, as he has done it shall be done to him, fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him.
For anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death; he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood is upon him.
A man or a woman who is a medium or a necromancer shall surely be put to death. They shall be stoned with stones; their blood is upon them.
Anyone who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the Lord your God is to be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
He who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, shall surely be put to death.
He who strikes his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang his body on a tree, his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is cursed by God.
But if a man lies with a female slave who is betrothed to another man, but has not been ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free; but he shall offer a trespass offering to the Lord.