Commandments About Court
23 biblical commandments from the Torah related to court.
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The court must fine one who sexually seduces a maiden
Exodus 22:16
"If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged, and lies with her, he must pay a dowry for her to be his wife.
The court must judge the damages incurred by an animal eating
Exodus 22:5
"If a man lets a field or vineyard be grazed bare and lets his animal loose so that it grazes in another man's field, he shall make restitution from the best of his own field and the best of his own vineyard.
The court must judge the damages incurred by a pit
Exodus 21:33
"If a man opens a pit, or digs a pit and does not cover it over, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
The court must judge the damages incurred by fire
Exodus 22:6
"If a fire breaks out and spreads to thorn bushes, so that stacked grain or the standing grain or the field itself is consumed, he who started the fire shall surely make restitution.
The court must implement punitive measures against a thief
Exodus 22:1
"If a man steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it, he shall pay five oxen for the ox and four sheep for the sheep.
The court must implement laws against the one who assaults another or damages another's property
Exodus 21:18
"If men have a quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but remains in bed,
The court must send the accidental murderer to a city of refuge
Numbers 35:25
'The congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he fled; and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
The courts must carry out the laws of a hired worker and hired guard
Exodus 22:10
"If a man gives his neighbor a donkey, an ox, a sheep, or any animal to keep for him, and it dies or is hurt or is driven away while no one is looking,
The courts must carry out the laws of a borrower
Exodus 22:14
"If a man borrows anything from his neighbor, and it is injured or dies while its owner is not with it, he shall make full restitution.
The courts must carry out the laws of an unpaid guard
Exodus 22:7
"If a man gives his neighbor money or goods to keep for him and it is stolen from the man's house, if the thief is caught, he shall pay double.
The courts must carry out the laws of the plaintiff, admitter, or denier
Exodus 22:9
"For every breach of trust, whether it is for ox, for donkey, for sheep, for clothing, or for any lost thing about which one says, 'This is it,' the case of both parties shall come before the judges; he whom the judges condemn shall pay double to his neighbor.
The court must not execute through a majority of one; at least a majority of two is required
Exodus 23:2
"You shall not follow the masses in doing evil, nor shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn aside after a multitude in order to pervert justice;
The courts must carry out the death penalty of stoning
Deuteronomy 22:24
then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city and you shall stone them to death; the girl, because she did not cry out in the city, and the man, because he has violated his neighbor's wife. Thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
The courts must carry out the death penalty of burning
Leviticus 20:14
If there is a man who marries a woman and her mother, it is immorality; both he and they shall be burned with fire, so that there will be no immorality in your midst.
The courts must carry out the death penalty of decapitation with the sword
Exodus 21:20
"If a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod and he dies at his hand, he shall be punished.
The courts must carry out the death penalty of strangulation
Leviticus 20:10
If there is a man who commits adultery with another man's wife, one who commits adultery with his friend's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
The courts must hang those stoned for blasphemy or idolatry
Deuteronomy 21:22
"If a man has committed a sin worthy of death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,
The court must not let the sorcerer live
Exodus 22:18
"You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
The court must give lashes to the wrongdoer
Deuteronomy 25:3
"He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.
The court must not exceed the prescribed number of lashes
Deuteronomy 25:3
"He may beat him forty times but no more, so that he does not beat him with many more stripes than these and your brother is not degraded in your eyes.
The court must not kill anybody on circumstantial evidence
Exodus 23:7
"Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.
The court must not punish anybody who was forced to do a crime
Deuteronomy 22:26
"But you shall do nothing to the girl; there is no sin in the girl worthy of death, for just as a man rises against his neighbor and murders him, so is this case.
Anybody who knows evidence must testify in court
Leviticus 5:1
Now if a person sins after he hears a public adjuration to testify when he is a witness, whether he has seen or otherwise known, if he does not tell it, then he will bear his guilt.