Ethiopian Canon Compliance Catalogue

Jubilees 28:6-7

And Laban said to Jacob: 'It is not so done in our country, to give the younger before the elder.' And it is not right to do this; for thus it is ordained and written in the heavenly tablets, that no one should give his younger daughter before the elder;

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Your Spirit

Loves God

By dealing in the daylight He sees anyway, trusting Him with outcomes honesty might cost me.

Loves Neighbor

By protecting the vulnerable parties in every family agreement — the passed-over, the deceived, the uninformed — through full candour.

Your Body

Moral Behaviour

Disclose everything material before a betrothal or family agreement is sealed

respect the standing rights of others — the elder, the prior claim — rather than quietly displacing them

refuse outcomes obtainable only by deceit

Ethiopian Canon Compliance Catalogue

Jubilees 28:6-7

but the elder, one gives first and after her the younger -and the man who does so, they set down guilt against him in heaven, and none is righteous that does this thing, for this deed is evil before the Lord.

Part 2 of 3

Your Spirit

Loves God

By dealing in the daylight He sees anyway, trusting Him with outcomes honesty might cost me.

Loves Neighbor

By protecting the vulnerable parties in every family agreement — the passed-over, the deceived, the uninformed — through full candour.

Your Body

Moral Behaviour

Disclose everything material before a betrothal or family agreement is sealed

respect the standing rights of others — the elder, the prior claim — rather than quietly displacing them

refuse outcomes obtainable only by deceit

Ethiopian Canon Compliance Catalogue

Jubilees 28:6-7

And command thou the children of Israel that they do not this thing; let them neither take nor give the younger before they have given the elder, for it is very wicked.

Part 3 of 3

Your Spirit

Loves God

By dealing in the daylight He sees anyway, trusting Him with outcomes honesty might cost me.

Loves Neighbor

By protecting the vulnerable parties in every family agreement — the passed-over, the deceived, the uninformed — through full candour.

Your Body

Moral Behaviour

Disclose everything material before a betrothal or family agreement is sealed

respect the standing rights of others — the elder, the prior claim — rather than quietly displacing them

refuse outcomes obtainable only by deceit

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