Day 24. Exodus 22-24

Exodus 22-24

Exodus 22

¹If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

More laws, hooray.

²If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.

What a great law. If you are being robbed, you can kill the robber.

⁵If a man shall cause a field or vineyard to be eaten, and shall put in his beast, and shall feed in another man's field; of the best of his own field, and of the best of his own vineyard, shall he make restitution.

If you steal or destroy someone crops, you have to repay with the best of yours.

⁶If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

If you start a fire, you have to repay all the things you burned.

¹⁶And if a man entice a maid that is not betrothed, and lie with her, he shall surely endow her to be his wife.

This is obviously not Dinah's law. If it were Dinah's law, then if she was enticed, and a man lay with her, then you kill the city of the person.

Here, the consequence of taking a girls virginity is that you have to marry her.

¹⁷If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.

If the father doesn't want her married to the guy, he can just charge the man.

This is an example of women as property. Actually, it's not necessarily the woman who is the property, this deals with the price for a woman's virginity. A woman's virgin vagina is owned by one of two men, the father, or the betrothed husband. We'll get more into the ownership of a woman's vagina in a bit.

¹⁸Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.

Kill witches. New age people who like to claim to be witches, say that this verse is wrongly translated, and that it should read "well poisoner". That's crap. This verse means witches.

¹⁹Whosoever lieth with a beast shall surely be put to death.

Bestiality is a crime punishable by death. If you think it's not very common, just do a search for bestiality in google news.

²⁰He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the LORD only, he shall be utterly destroyed.

Worship of any other god is punishable by death. How does this correspond to "Thou shalt not kill". It obviously shows that "kill" means murder.

²⁵If thou lend money to any of my people that is poor by thee, thou shalt not be to him as an usurer, neither shalt thou lay upon him usury.

Usury is a sin. But only between Hebrews. It is not a sin to take excessive fees from strangers.

²⁹Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

The best of things is for god. Especially the booze.

Exodus 23

¹Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Don't lie in court. This goes back to the commandment of "Thou shalt not bear false witness". That doesn't mean, "don't lie" as it's often represented to be.

⁸And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

Don't take bribes.

¹⁰And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:

¹¹But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

This is the Shmita. It's supposed to give the land a year to recuperate from farming. This is before farmers discovered that rotating crops would replenish the soil. Shmita is still going on.

¹⁴Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year.

¹⁵Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread: (thou shalt eat unleavened bread seven days, as I commanded thee, in the time appointed of the month Abib; for in it thou camest out from Egypt: and none shall appear before me empty:)

¹⁶And the feast of harvest, the firstfruits of thy labours, which thou hast sown in the field: and the feast of ingathering, which is in the end of the year, when thou hast gathered in thy labours out of the field.

Three feasts, unleavened bread, harvest, and ingathering.

¹⁷Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.

How often to go to church? Three times a year.

²⁰Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

A cloud in the day, and a fire in the night.

²³For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.

²⁴Thou shalt not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after their works: but thou shalt utterly overthrow them, and quite break down their images.

The only reason those people are there, and not the 600,000 Hebrews is because they stuck around when the Hebrews went down into Egypt.

²⁷I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

²⁸And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

Everyone who occupied Canaan will be driven out. But not quickly, it'll be slow, like a disease taking over.

³²Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

³³They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me: for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

Make no peace treaties with the people who are currently occupying your land. If you do, bad things will happen.

Exodus 24

³And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.

This won't last very long.

⁴And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

This is shortly after god said that the altar was supposed to be earthen. They then sacrificed an ox.

⁹Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:

¹⁰And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

God has feet. At this point 74 people saw god.

¹²And the LORD said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

Either this is out of order, or we haven't received the ten commandments on stone yet.

¹⁴And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: if any man have any matters to do, let him come unto them.

Remember, Moses was the Chief Justice of the people. While he was gone, he put Aaron and Hur in charge. He was gone for 40 days and 40 nights.

Points to ponder:

1. Women are property. Their vagina's belong to either the father or the husband.

2. People who want to put biblical law back into place want these laws established. They want women to be property. Slavery is also acceptable. There won't be prison overcrowding, since almost all the laws are punishable by death.

3. Can you imagine if modern farmers would not plant crops for a year? Modern Jews get around the 7th year rest by selling their land to people who aren't Jews, and then buying it back the next year. They follow the letter of the law, but not the spirit of it. Do you follow the laws?