“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 […]

“But if any harm follows, then you are to give life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound and bruise for bruise.”-Exodus 21:23 There is one fundamental difference between the Bible and the Koran. Mutilation was NOT a permitted punishment in God’s justice system. I’m […]

“If a person beats his male or female slave with a stick so severely that he dies, he is to be punished; except that if the slave lives for a day or two, he is not to be punished, since the slave is his property.-Exodus 21:20 Exodus 21:20 deals with the matter of a master beating his slave […]