“You are not to curse God, and you are not to curse a leader of your people.” -Exodus 22:28 Exodus 22:28 (or 22:27 depending on which translation you’re using) is actually a perfect example illustrating why it’s soooooo dang important to study the original Hebrew when reading the Bible. Let’s take a take a close look […]

“You are not to abuse any widow or orphan.  If you do abuse them in any way, and they cry to me, I will certainly heed their cry.  My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword — your own wives will be widows and your own children fatherless.  If you loan […]

“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 […]