Deuteronomy 12.19

“‘Take care that you do not neglect the Levite as long as you live in your land.’”

8.2 Do not withhold what is due

God’s people are to be actively concerned to preserve the property and wellbeing of their neighbors, and to ensure that each receives what he is due.

8Guard against negligence

Love for neighbor requires active concern for their property and full restoration of any loss we may cause.

Exodus 21.33, 34

“When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it, the owner of the pit shall make restoration.

 7.4 Regulate divorce

 Divorce is permitted under certain conditions of indecency.

You shall not steal

The Commandment

God is sovereign in the disposition of blessings, and He calls each of us to exercise proper stewardship over what He has entrusted to us, and to respect and preserve the stewardship of others. We must not, by stealing in any way, violate the divine economy and the stewardship rights and duties of others.

Deuteronomy 22.23, 24

“If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her, then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.”

Leviticus 19.29

“Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, lest the land fall into prostitution and the land become full of depravity.”

Leviticus 18.23

“And you shall not lie with any animal and so make yourself unclean with it, neither shall any woman give herself to an animal to lie with it: it is perversion.”

Leviticus 20.20

“If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.”

7.3 Do not commit other unlawful relations

Do not allow those practices that cheapen sexuality and threaten the integrity and lawful purposes of sexual activity.

Leviticus 20.17

“If a man takes his sister, a daughter of his father or a daughter of his mother, and sees her nakedness, and she sees his nakedness, it is a disgrace,