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Originally posted by mrnoodle
20:9 When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
20:10 Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the Lord your God.
20:11-12 Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not deceive one another. Do not swear falsely by my name and so profane the name of your God. I am the Lord.
20:13 Do not defraud your neighbor or rob him. Do not hold back the wages of a hired man overnight.
20:14 Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind, but fear your God. I am the Lord.
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Well the first two and the second half of 20:13 are certainly not reflected in US law, and the others are pretty common in human society. Every society will have people who trip blind people, people who laugh at it, and people who disaprove. (not always different people...)
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Getting back on track...Happy Monkey, here's a few examples that have a direct parallel. There is no way of proving or disproving individual verses' contribution to founding documents, but the themes are the same:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal…" Declaration of Independence
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for you are all one in Christ Jesus." - Galatians 3:28
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These quotes are too different, in both phrasing and meaning, to be matched up. One is saying that no man is inherently inferior based on the social class or nation into which they were born. The second is saying that differences don't matter because everyone is inferior to Jesus.
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"No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court." - U.S Constitution, Art. III, Section 3, Paragraph 1
"On the testimony of two or three witnesses a man shall be put to death, but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of only one witness." - Deut. 17:6
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This is an obvious way to decrease the chances of "murder by perjury", but the wording is somewhat similar, so it may well have been an inspiration.
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"..but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted." - U.S Constitution, Art. III, Section 3, Paragraph 2
"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin." - Deut. 24:16
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These seem to share the barest of meanings, but are quite different. The first seems to say that property confiscated in a treason trial must be returned when the subject dies (is this respected in any current law? Odd.). The other restricts executions to the criminal, but not their family. Both put a restriction on how much a family can be punished for the crimes of one member, but they do so in extremely different ways.