Exodus 2023

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Exodus 20-23

• The Book of the Covenant
• Then he Moses took the Book of the Covenant
  and read it to the people. Ex. 247

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Mosaic Covenant Compared to Suzerainty Treaties
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Types of Laws

• Precedent or Case Law
• If a man does X . . . he shall pay Y.
• Statute or Prohibition
• Do not mistreat an alien. No penalty stated.
• Participial Begins with participle and
• Ends with he shall surely be put to death.

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Similarities with Other Legal Codes

• Tiglath-Pileser I 1300 BC
• Hittite 1450 BC
• Hammurabi 1760 BC
• Lipit-Ishtar 1875 BC
• Ur Nammu 2050 BC

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Laws of Exodus 20-23

• Servants
• Capital Offenses
• Bodily Injury
• Property Damage/Theft

• Social Responsibility
• Justice Mercy
• Ceremonial Laws

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Servants 21 2-11

• Acquiring a Hebrew Servant
• Daughter Sold as a Servant

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Capital Offenses 2112-17

• Murder
• Physical Violence Against Parents
• Cursing of Parents
• Kidnapping
• Allowance for Unintentional Death

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Bodily Injury 2118-32

• Fisticuffs
• Hitting a Servant
• Incidental Injury to Pregnant Woman
• Injury Caused by Goring Bull

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Property Damage/Theft 2133-2215

• Loss to Animals
• Theft
• Grazing Livestock / Fire
• Safekeeping
• Borrowing an Animal

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Social Responsibility 2216-31

• Seduction of Unengaged Maiden
• Sorcery / Beastiality / Idolatry
• Oppression of Poor / Widow / Orphan / Alien
• Misc.- Blasphemy, Offerings, Roadkill

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Justice Mercy 231-9

• False Testimony
• Following the Crowd
• Favoritism
• Denying Justice
• Bribery
• Oppression

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Ceremonial Laws 2310-19

• Sabbath
• 7th Day
• 7th Year
• Annual Feasts
• Unleavened Bread (early Spring)
• Harvest (end of Spring)
• Ingathering (early Autumn)

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Epilogue 2320-23

• Gods Guiding Hand
• Gods Plan for Conquest
• Borders of Land

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Principles / Lessons

• Companion Principles of . . .
• Fair Compensation
• Limits on Retribution

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Principles / Lessons

• Protection of Rights Property . . .
• . . . Tempered by notion that material
  blessings come from God

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Principles / Lessons

• Protection of the Disadvantaged
• Alien, Servant, Widow, Orphan, Poor, Young
  Maiden

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Principles / Lessons

• Sanctity of Life
• All human life man, woman, unborn

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Principles / Lessons

• Holiness / Separation / Orderliness
• You are to be my holy people.
• Ex. 2231