Exodus 21 and 22 offer a window to the world pre 10 Commandments. I read through all of these laws and I feel sorry for Moses and the judges. Imagine the disputes that produced these laws. My favorite is leaving a pit uncovered. Truly that would be the pits!
Thank God we live in the post 10 Commandments era and the grace of Jesus is available. Brace yourself the laws are going to become more entangled in the reading ahead. We have not even read Deuteronomy yet! Thank God Jesus simplified the thousands of laws to just two!
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Reading through these laws this time I actually have a new appreciation for them. Many of them seem to condone practices that we certainly do not approve of (i.e. slavery), but this time I saw more clearly that even these laws reveal a compassionate spirit. Apparently persons were reduced to servitude because of a debt of some kind, but even then they were entitled to a certain level of respect under the law.
ReplyDeleteI like the observation about law and compassion.
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