Episode 417: The Book of the Covenant (Exodus 19-24 with James Jordan)
The Theopolis Podcast
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Hebrew Idiom
Hebrew law has to be interpreted in terms of the specifics. He who curses his father or mother does not imply that if a child raises his voice against his parents, he's to be to death. If two men struggle and strike a woman so that she has carriage, then the penalty is eye for eye and tooth for tooth. In versus 20 and 21, the slave is to go free if he's injured. Here we have a rather well known law about the abortion law. Then we come to the ox. There's a series of laws here about what oxen do. And it's important to re that the ox symbolizes the nation, israel, or any nation, and
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