“Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot” Deuteronomy 19:21
By Rebbetzin Shuli Liss
“Put the inhabitants of that town to the sword and its cattle to the sword. Doom it all and all that is in it to destruction: ...and burn the town” Deuteronomy 13:16-17
By Rabbi Danny Rich
“It will come about that because you will listen to these commandments, keep them and perform them, the Lord, your God will keep for you the covenant and the kindness that He swore to your forefathers” Deuteronomy 7:12-13
By Rabbi Mordechai Wollenberg
“Let me, I pray, cross over and see the good land on the other side of the Jordan” Deuteronomy 3:23
By Rabbi Kathleen Middleton
“When all the warriors among the people had died off, Hashem spoke to me” Deuteronomy 2:16-17
By Rabbi Daniel Silverstein
“Among the cities you shall give to the Levites, shall be six cities of refuge, which you shall provide [as places] to which a murderer can flee” Numbers 35:6
“Let the Eternal God, source of the breath of all flesh, appoint someone over the community” Numbers 27:16
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God happened upon Balaam, who stated, ‘I have set up the seven altars and offered up a bull and a ram on each’” Numbers 23:4
“You shall not lead this congregation into the land that I have given them” Numbers 20:12
“And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face” Numbers 16:4
“The people who inhabit the land are mighty, and the cities are extremely huge and fortified” Numbers 13:28
“We remember the fish we used to eat free in Egypt - the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions and the garlic” Numbers 11:6
“The one who brought his offering on the first day was Nachshon the son of Aminadav of the tribe of Judah” Numbers 7:12
“Take a census of the whole Israelite community” Numbers 1:2
“And I will grant peace in the Land, and you will lie down untroubled by anyone; I will remove wild beasts from the Land, and no sword will pass through your land| Leviticus 26:6
“You shall keep My Sabbaths” Leviticus 26:2
