100 Bible Verses About Obligation

But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord.

If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain;

And now the Lord shew kindness and truth unto you: and I also will requite you this kindness, because ye have done this thing.

Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.

If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband’s brother unto her.

Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law of the Lord.

As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

And thou shalt bring the Levites before the Lord: and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites:

And they did eat and drink, he and the men that were with him, and tarried all night; and they rose up in the morning, and he said, Send me away unto my master.

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:

And thou shalt give the money, wherewith the odd number of them is to be redeemed, unto Aaron and to his sons.

And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that thou mayest fear this glorious and fearful name, THE LORD THY GOD;

Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother be with us.

And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.

But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as the Lord commanded Moses.

I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people.

And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.

This is the law of the Nazarite who hath vowed, and of his offering unto the Lord for his separation, beside that that his hand shall get: according to the vow which he vowed, so he must do after the law of his separation.

And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel.

And this shall be the priest’s due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the Lord by thy estimation.

Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.

Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

And Judah said unto Onan, Go in unto thy brother’s wife, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother.

Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the Lord; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

Then the man that lay with her shall give unto the damsel’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife; because he hath humbled her, he may not put her away all his days.

Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:

And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,

Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near kinswoman.

And if he smite out his manservant’s tooth, or his maidservant’s tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth’s sake.

Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man’s field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book, until they were finished,

Take his garment that is surety for a stranger, and take a pledge of him for a strange woman.

Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:

Vow, and pay unto the Lord your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:

And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.

And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:

When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;

And the persons were sixteen thousand; of which the Lord’s tribute was thirty and two persons.

And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel:

This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, to serve, and for burdens:

At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithe of thine increase the same year, and shalt lay it up within thy gates:

And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark.

The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the Lord seven days:

But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the Lord before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the Lord.

And if it be any unclean beast, of which they do not offer a sacrifice unto the Lord, then he shall present the beast before the priest:

Swear now therefore unto me by the Lord, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father’s house.

So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

And Absalom said to Hushai, Is this thy kindness to thy friend? why wentest thou not with thy friend?

Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.

And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.

When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people,

Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.

And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?

And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man among thy children shalt thou redeem.

But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the Lord shall forgive her.

But every vow of a widow, and of her that is divorced, wherewith they have bound their souls, shall stand against her.

And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

So were all those that were numbered of the children of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war in Israel;

This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering of the Lord.

Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in Sion: and unto thee shall the vow be performed.

Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

But if he will at all redeem it, then he shall add a fifth part thereof unto thy estimation.

Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the Lord, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token:

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the Lord shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.

Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings.