“You must neither wrong nor oppress a foreigner living among you, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.” -Exodus 22:21 Up until now, we were told about those acts requiring the immediate destruction of the offender, which were sorcery, copulating with an animal, and idolatry. However, from verse 21, the content of […]

“Anyone who sacrifices to any god other than Adonai alone is to be completely destroyed.”-Exodus 22: (19) 20 What I love about God’s Law is that it is very pinpointed in exposing all of our tendencies to want to deceive or make excuses in order to get out of doing something we really don’t want to do.  […]

“You are not to permit a sorceress to live.” “Whoever has sexual relations with an animal must be put to death.” -Exodus 22:18-19 Exodus chapter 22 can logically be divided into two parts.  Those laws and regulations that come before verse 17 or 18 and those that come after. You’ll notice that the structure of […]

Today we begin Exodus Chapter 22. For the Complete Jewish Bible, click here. For the King James version, click here. “If a thief caught in the act of breaking in is beaten to death, it is not murder;  unless it happens after sunrise, in which case it is murder.” -Exodus 22:1 Exodus Chapter 22 is […]

 “If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, the ox is to be stoned and its flesh not eaten, but the owner of the ox will have no further liability. However, if the ox was in the habit of goring in the past, and the owner was warned but did not confine […]