Social Laws of Moses

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Social Laws of Moses
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Government Leaders Under Moses

• (Future) Kings Deut 1714-20
• God chooses
• Countryman
• Not multiply horses, wives, silver and gold
• Copy and ready Gods law
• Not lift his heart above his countrymen
• Judges
• Fair, impartial judges Lev 1915 Deut 1618-20
• Appeals to Moses, and Levite priests and judges
  Deut 178-9
• Death penalty for refusing appellate
  decisionDeut 1710-13
• Evidence requires 2 or 3 witnesses Deut 1915

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Punishment Under Moses

• Lex talionis
• Frivolous lawsuit just has he intended to do to
  his brother Deut 1916-18
• Injury eye for eye and tooth for tooth Lev
  1919-20
• Corporal punishment Deut 251-3
• Beat no more than 40 lashes
• Dont degrade your brother
• Capital Punishment
• Hang on a tree bury same day Deut 2122-23
• God will not acquit killing the innocent Ex 237

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Personal Crimes In Israel
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Killing

• Murder Punishable by Death Lev 2417
• Killing with malice aforethought Deut 1111-13
• Negligent Homicide is murder Ex 2129
• Causing death of unborn child Ex 2122-23
• Blood avenger is to kill the murderer Deut 1112
• Manslaughter Ex 2112-14 Deut 194-6
• Killing without malice is not murder
• Cities of refuge protect until trial
• Unwittingly allowing death is not murder (unknown
  ox gore) Ex 2920

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Other Personal Crimes

• Kidnapping Deut 247
• Death penalty
• Whether for selling or keeping a person
• Assault
• Lex talionis Lev 1919-20
• Compensatory damages Ex 2119-20
• Certain sexual assault cut off womans hand if
  she seeks to rescue her husband by grabbing
  assailants genitals. Deut 2511-12
• Striking a parent death penalty Ex 2115
• Knocking out slaves eye or tooth slaves
  freedom Ex 2126-27

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Sexual AssaultDeut 2223-28

• Rape of un-engaged virgin
• Pay dowry and marry her with no divorce allowed
• At least pay dowry if father refuses to let her
  marry
• Rape of engaged virgin
• In the city stone them both she didnt cry out
• In the field stone him nobody heard her cry
  out

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Business Law

• Ownership
• Make good any animal you kill. Lev 1921
• Respect your neighbors boundary. Dt 1914
• Employment
• Pay hired man before sundown Lev 1913
• Release indentured countryman in 6 yrs, not
  empty-handed Lev 2539-43 Dt 1512-14
• Slavery
• Limit slavery to foreigners. Lev 2544-46
• Do not return escaped slaves Dt 2315-16

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Loans, Contracts, Measures

• Stealing, false dealing, dishonesty, false
  measures are condemned. Lev 191-13
• Womens vows stand unless annulled by their
  fathers or husbands. Num 302-8
• No interest allowed to countrymen Lev 2319-20
• Collateral is restricted. Ex 2226 Deut 246-17
• Poor mans coat must be returned every night.
• You cant go in and get it debtor must bring it.
• Widows garments cannot be taken for collateral.

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Restitution, Inheritance, War

• Pay damages plus 20 Lev 62-6 Num 56-8
• To aggrieved party or his relative
• If no relative is found for restitution, pay the
  priest.
• Pay compensation for negligent damage
• Open pit Ex 2133-34
• Dangerous animal Ex 2128-36
• Animals eating up neighbors field. Ex 225
• Assure proper inheritance Dt 2115-17 255-10
• Give the oldest son a double portion
  (primogeniture)
• Father a child in your dead brothers name.
  (Levirate marriage)
• Exempt certain people from war Dt 205-8
• New house, vineyard, fianceAfraid or
  fainthearted

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Social laws under Moses

• Marriage and Sex
• Food Regulations
• Charity and Respect

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Marriage

• Wives and War
• Take one if you like, but let her mourn Let her
  go if you dont like her Dt 2110-14
• Newlyweds exempt from war 1 yr Dt 245
• Divorce Dt 241-4
• Certificate required for Some indecency
• Once she remarries, you can never take her back.

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Sex Laws

• Forbidden sexual relations
• Adultery Sex that violates marriage vow Death
  penalty Lev 1820 2222
• Pre-marital sex
• False virginity Stone her Dt 2220-21
• With someone elses fiancée Stone both (unless
  where she couldnt scream for help) Dt 2222-24
• Seducing un-engaged virgin Marriage and/or
  dowry Dt 2228-29 Ex 2216-17
• With someone else's slave guilt offering, but
  no punishment. Lev 1922-22

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Sex Laws

• Forbidden sexual relations
• Prostitution (sometimes cultic)
• None of children of Israel Lev 1929 Dt 2317
• Prostitute _at_ temple abomination Dt 2318
• Burn to death a priests daughter who is a
  prostitute Lev 217-9
• Same sex unions
• Man with man an abomination Lev 1822
• Man with man detestable kill both Lev 2013
• Bestiality Kill person and animal Lev 2015-16

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Penalties For Incest Lev 20

• - More severe penalties for closer relations -
• Death of both parties
• Son with father's wife
• Father with son's wife
• Husband with wife's mother burn them
• Cut off from the people
• Brother with sister or half-sister
• Die childless
• Nephew with uncle's wife
• Brother with brother's wife

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Charity and Respect

• Charity and Kindness
• Let needy people glean your fields. Lev 199-10
  Dt 2419-21
• Leave corner crops for them.
• Leave what you drop or forget.
• Let neighbors eat a little fruit. Lev 2324-25
• Return protect neighbor's property Dt 221-4
• Be kind to animals.
• Don't take a mother bird from its young. Dt 226
• Don't muzzle an ox while threshing. Dt 254

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Charity and RespectPeople Due Special Respect

• Strangers
• Treat them fairly.Ex 2221-24
• Love them as yourself. Lev 1933-34
• Apply law equally to them. Lev 2422
• Widows and orphans
• Treat them fairly.Ex 2221-24

• Deaf and blind people Lev 1914
• No cursing the deaf or tripping the blind.
• Gray-haired old people
• Stand honor them. Lev 1932
• Parents
• Death penalty for cursing parents Lev 209
• Death penalty for conviction of stubborn
  rebellious children. Deut 2118-21