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May 29 - Exodus 21 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Aloha. No, I'm not in a whole why I
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  just wouldn't mind being in Hawaii.
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  How are you friend? Lovely to have your company.
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  Welcome to another new week Monday.
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  Um and they what a day I hope that this Monday finds you doing
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  well full of Well, optimism about the week or daydreaming
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  about a tropical island somewhere or somewhere in
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  between haha. Good to have your company either
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  way DNA, this is the week that you and I continue reading
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  through the book of Exodus and we have arrived at the point
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  where we get front row seats, to the formation of a Nation.
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  This doesn't happen very often over the next four chapters that
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  we read this week we are going to hear about what God is
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  telling them and this really is the blueprint.
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  For forming, what it means to be an Israelite person because you
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  got to remember, they rocked up in Egypt as a family, right?
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  60-yard people and then they grew and grew and grew and then
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  became enslaved for hundreds of years until the point that they
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  were just recently released. And so now for the first time
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  they think, what does it look like to be a people group to be
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  a holy nation? And so, God sets out for them,
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  the way that he would have them. And this is actually the, the
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  origins in the blueprints for the way the Western World works.
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  And so this will all sound quite familiar, but at the time as far
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  as literature of the ancient near East goes, this is radical
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  stuff. Really, really incredible to
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  hear God's spirit imbued into this document, which talks about
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  what it would look like to be a just people.
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  So let us settle in and And hear what God has to say as he sets
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  up this New Covenant with his people.
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  And on Thursday, we will hear how the people respond.
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  So let's continue on this journey together eating
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  together, Exodus 21, These are the regulations, you
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  must present to Israel. If you buy a Hebrew slave he
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  must serve for no more than six years.
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  Set him free in the seventh year and he will owe you nothing for
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  his freedom. If he was single, when he became
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  your slave he shall leave single but if he was married before he
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  became a slave then his wife must be freed with him.
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  If his master gave him a wife, while he was a slave and they
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  had Sons or daughters, then only the man will be free in the
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  seventh year, but his wife and children will still belong to
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  his master. But the slave May declare, I
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  love my master, my wife and my children.
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  I don't want to go free. If he does this, his master must
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  present him before God, then his master must take him to the door
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  or doorpost and publicly pierce his ear with an awl.
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  After that, the slave will serve his master for life.
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  When a man sells, his daughter as a slave, she will not be free
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  at the end of six years as the men are.
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  If she does not satisfy her owner, he must allow her to be
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  bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell
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  her to foreigners. Since he is the one who broke
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  the contract with her, but if the slave owner, arranges for
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  her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave, but
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  as a daughter, If a man, who is married a slave wife, takes
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  another wife for himself, he must not neglect the rights of
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  the first wife to food clothing and sexual intimacy, if he fails
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  in any of these three obligations, she may leave as a
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  free woman without making any payment.
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  Anyone who assaults and kills, another person must be put to
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  death, but if it was simply an accident permitted by God, I
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  will appoint a place of Refuge where the Slayer can run for
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  safety. However, if someone deliberately
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  kills another person, then the Slayer must be dragged even from
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  my Ulta and be put to death. Anyone who's strikes father or
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  mother must be put to death, kidnappers must be put to death.
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  Whether they are caught in possession of their victims or
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  have already sold them as slaves.
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  Anyone who dishonors father or mother must be put to death?
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  Now supposed to men quarrel and one hits the other with a stone
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  or Fist and the injured person does not die but is confined to
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  bed if he is later able to walk outside again.
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  Even with a Touch, the assailant will not be punished, but must
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  compensate his victim for lost wages and provide for his full
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  recovery. If a man beats his male or
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  female slave with the club and the slave dies, as a result, the
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  owner must be punished but if the slave recovers within a day
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  or two, then the owner shall not be punished.
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  Since the slave is his property. That's opposed to Men of
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  fighting and in the process that accidentally strike a pregnant
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  woman, so she gives birth prematurely if no further injury
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  results, the man who struck the woman.
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  Must pay the amount of compensation, the woman's
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  husband demands and the judges approve. but if there is further
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  injury, the punishment must match the injury a life for a
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  life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand,
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  a foot for a foot, a burn for a bone, a wound for a wound, a
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  bruise for a bruise If a man hits his male or female slave in
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  the eye and the eye is blinded, he must let the slave Go free to
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  compensate for the eye. And if a man knocks out the
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  tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave Go
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  free to compensate for the tooth.
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  If an ox gauze, a man or woman to death.
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  The ox must be stoned and its flesh.
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  May not be eaten in such a case. However, the owner will not be
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  held liable, but suppose the ox had a reputation for Goring and
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  the owner had been informed but failed to keep it under control.
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  If the ox then kills someone it must be stoned.
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  And the owner must also be put to death.
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  However, the dead person's relatives, May accept payment to
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  compensate. The loss of life, the owner of
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  the ox May redeem his life by paying whatever is demanded.
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  The same regulation applies if the ox Gore's a boy or a girl.
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  But if the ox scores are slave, either male or female, the
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  animals owner must pay the slaves, owner, Thirty silver
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  coins, and the ox must be stoned.
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  Suppose someone digs are uncovers a pit and fails to
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  cover it and then an ox or a donkey falls into it.
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  The owner of the pit must pay full compensation to the owner
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  of the animal. But then he gets to keep the
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  dead animal. If someone's Ox injures and
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  neighbors ox and the injured oxidized, then the two owners
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  must sell the live ox and divide the price equally between them.
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  They must also divide the dead animal, but if the ox had a
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  reputation for Goring yet its own a failed to keep it under
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  control, he must pay full compensation alive Ox for a dead
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  one. But he may keep the dead ox.
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  Lord, as we hear all of these ideas about what Justice looks
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  like and what a people look like that, respect the rights of
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  others. This sounds so familiar because
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  so much of our world is based on your wisdom because your wisdom
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  is well wise and kind. Thank you that even though to
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  our modern ears the regulations around women slaves.
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  Sounds archaic and barbaric. This was a huge step forward.
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  Actually proclaiming rights. For those who had no lights,
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  thank you for revealing your heart, that always looks to give
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  rights and give voice to those that have none help us to
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  continue your work of giving a voice to those whose voices.
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  Voice can't be heard. We thank you for giving us the
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  gift of your Justice. We just are so humbled by you
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  and we love you and we worship you and it's in Jesus name that
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  we pray. Amen.