Va'etchanan - Further Reading - Biblical

Biblical

• Exodus 13:1–2 (firstborn); 13:12–13 (firstborn); 20:4; 20:5 in NJPS (punishing children for fathers’ sin); 20:1–19 (Ten Commandments); 21:12–14 (cities of refuge); 22:28–29 (firstborn); 34:7 (punishing children for fathers’ sin).
• Numbers 3:11–13 (firstborn); 14:18 (punishing children for fathers’ sin); 18:15–18 (firstborn); 35:1–33.
• Deuteronomy 17:2–5 (worshipping sun, moon, stars); 19:1–13; 24:16 (no capital punishment of children for fathers’ sin).
• Joshua 20:1–9 (cities of refuge).
• Isaiah 56:6–7 (keeping the Sabbath); 66:23 (universally observed Sabbath).
• Jeremiah 8:1–2 (worshipping sun, moon, stars); 31:28–29, (31:29–30 in NJPS) (not punishing children for fathers’ sin).
• Ezekiel 8:16–18 (sun worship); 18:1–4 (not punishing children for fathers’ sin); 18:5–7 (the just one does not rob).
• Psalms 19:8–12 (value of God’s law); 71:19 (God’s righteousness reaches to heaven); 86:8 (none like God among the gods); 89:6 (heavens praise God in the assembly of the holy ones); 111:10 (fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom).
• Job 31:26–28 (worshipping sun, moon).