"And Abraham drew near and said, 'Will you destroy the righteous with the wicked?... Shall the Judge of the earth not do justice?'" Genesis 18:23, 25
By Rabbi Dr Moshe Freedman
"'Look towards heaven and count the stars, if you're able to count them.' And He said to him, 'So will be your descendants'" Genesis 15:5
By Rina Wolfson
"And the Lord God created man of dust from the earth" Genesis 2:7
By Rabbi Dr Michael Harris
"Three times in the year shall all the males appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel" Exodus 34:23
By Rabbi Miriam Berger
"But Jonah arose to flee to Tarshish from before the presence of the Lord" Jonah 1:3
"Like an eagle who rouses his nestlings, gliding down to his young. So did he spread his wings and take him, bear him along on his pinions" Deuteronomy 32.1
"Write down this poem and teach it to the people of Israel" Deuteronomy 31:19
By Sally Berkovic
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"You shall take of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you will bring from your land" Deuteronomy 26:2
"If a man has two wives, one loved, and the other unloved and both have born him sons, but the firstborn is the son of the unloved; when he wills his property to his sons, he may not treat as firstborn the son of the loved and disregard the older son of the unloved. But he shall acknowledge as firstborn the son of the unloved" Deuteronomy 21: 15-17
"And you shall not move a boundary of your fellow" Deuteronomy 19:14
"You shall not act at all as we now act here, every one as they please" Deuteronomy 12.8
"You shall eat, you shall be satisfied and you shall bless" Deuteronomy 8:10
"If your child asks you tomorrow… you shall say to your child " Deuteronomy 6:20-21
"Because of you the Lord was incensed with me, too and He said: 'You shall not enter it [the Land] either'" Deuteronomy 1:37
"And Moses wrote down their starting-points according to their journeys by the commandment of God, and these are their journeys according to their starting-points" Numbers 33:2
"And we have brought… what each of us found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings... to make atonement" Numbers 31.50