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Day 69 – Law and Consequences Exodus 21:1 “Now these are the judgments which you will set before them: 2 If you buy a Hebrew servant, he will serve six years; and in the seventh he will go out free and pay nothing. 3 If he comes in by himself, he will go out by himself; if he comes in married, then his wife will go out with him. 4 If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne him sons or daughters, the wife and her children will be her master’s, and he will go out by himself. 5 But if the servant plainly says, ‘I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free,’ 6 then his master will bring him to the judges. He will also bring him to the door, or to the doorpost, and his master will pierce his ear with an awl; and he will serve him forever. 7 If a man sells his daughter to be a female slave, she will not go out as the male slaves do. 8 If she does not please her master, who betrothed her to himself, then he will let her be redeemed. He will have no right to sell her to foreign people, since he dealt deceitfully with her. 9 If he betrothed her to his son, he would deal with her according to the custom of daughters. 10 If he takes another wife, he will not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marriage rights. 11 If he does not do these three for her, then she will go out free, without paying money. 12 “He who strikes a man so that he dies will surely be put to death. 13 However, if he did not lie in wait, but Elohiym delivered him into his hand, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee. 14 But if a man acts with premeditation against his neighbor, to kill him by treachery, you will take him from My altar, that he may die. 15 He who strikes his father or his mother will be put to death. 16 He who kidnaps a man and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, will be put to death. 17 He who curses his father or his mother will be put to death. 18 If men contend with each other, and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist, and he does not die but is confined to his bed, 19 if he rises again and walks about outside with his staff, then he who struck him will be acquitted. He will only pay for the loss of his time and provide for him to be thoroughly healed. 20 If a man beats his male or female servant with a rod, so that he dies under his hand, he will be punished. 21 Notwithstanding, if he remains alive a day or two, he will not be punished; for he is his property. 22 “If men fight, and hurt a woman with child, so that she gives birth prematurely, yet no harm follows, he will be punished accordingly as the woman’s husband imposes on him; and he will pay as the judges determine. 23 But if any harm follows, then you shall give life for life, 24 eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, 25 burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe. 26 If a man strikes the eye of his male or female servant, and destroys it, he will let him go free for the sake of his eye. 27 If he knocks out the tooth of his male or female servant, he will let him go free for the sake of his tooth. 28 If an ox gores a man or a woman to death, then the ox will be stoned, and its flesh will not be eaten; but the owner of the ox will be acquitted. 29 If the ox tended to thrust with its horn in times past, and it has been made known to his owner, and he has not kept it confined, so that it killed a man or a woman, the ox will be stoned, and its owner also will be put to death. 30 If there is imposed on him a sum of money, then he will pay to redeem his life, whatever is imposed on him. 31 Whether it gored a son or gored a daughter, according to this judgment it will be done to him. 32 If the ox gores a male or female servant, he will give to their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox will be stoned. 33 If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls in it, 34 the owner of the pit will make it good; he will give money to their owner, but the dead animal will be his. 35 If one man’s ox hurts another’s, so that it dies, then they will sell the live ox and divide the money from it; and they will also divide the dead ox. 36 Or if it was known that the ox tended to thrust in time past, and its owner has not kept it confined, he will pay ox for ox, and the dead animal will be his own. God’s name: Elohiym Yeshuwa – Jesus God’s character: Lawgiver When you seek an attorney and enter his office to discuss your situation, you will find shelves of books on the laws of the country. Your lawyer will know which book to use to find the precedence for what you need. If necessary, he will use the book in your case and cite certain situations during your hearing or trial. Elohiym sets forth the laws for His people. Given orally to Moses, who wrote the laws on a parchment scroll. Elohiym gave Moses 613 laws governing the people in every area of their lives. Elohiym was specific about what should happen to those who violated His laws. You see a distinction between crimes deserving of death, and those deserving of punishment. Christians argue that these laws given to Moses are no longer valid because Yeshuwa did away with the law through His death on the cross. When did Yeshuwa say the Law would pass away? Matthew 5:17 “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. 18 For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.” (NKJV) Is the Law fulfilled? Paul gives a compelling argument regarding the law. Romans 7:1 Do you not know, brethren (for I speak to those who know the law), that the law has dominion over a man as long as he lives? 2 For the woman who has a husband is bound by the law to her husband as long as he lives. But if the husband dies, she is released from the law of her husband. 3 So then if, while her husband lives, she marries another man, she will be called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, though she has married another man. 4 Therefore, my brethren, you also have become dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you may be married to another—to Him who was raised from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions which were aroused by the law were at work in our members to bear fruit to death. 6 But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter. 7 What shall we say then? Is the law a sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have known sin except through the law. For I would not have known covetousness unless the law had said, “You will not covet.” 8 Sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, produced in me all manner of evil desire. For apart from the law sin was dead. 9 I was alive once without the law, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. 10 The commandment, which was to bring life, I found to bring death. 11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed me. 12 Therefore, the law is holy, and the commandment holy and just and good. 13 Has then what is good become death to me? Certainly not! But sin, that it might appear sin, produced death in me through what is good, so that sin through the commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. 15 For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. 16 If then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 Now, it is no longer I who does it, but sin that dwells in me. 18 For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but how to perform what is good I do not find. 19 For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice. 20 Now if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who does it, but sin that dwells in me. 21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin. The Law given by Elohiym to Moses is your teacher. It teaches you right from wrong and shows you the consequences for your wrongful behavior. As Yeshuwa said, the Law won’t pass away until heaven and earth pass away. The earth is still standing. The Law is still valid. The only part of the Law Yeshuwa fulfilled was the part of the Law regarding His death and resurrection. In that you are under grace. However, the rest of the law Elohiym gave to Moses is not done away with. The consequences Elohiym gave Moses regarding slavery, marriage, and the actions of animals to people and other animals, still apply. Elohiym has not changed His Law. You cannot decide to disregard the Law because Yeshuwa came to redeem you. You need to regard the Law in the same manner Paul did. The Law teaches you right from wrong, so you know how to behave toward one another. Let’s pray: Father, thank you for Your Law which shows me right from wrong and teaches me right behavior to others. Help me to be obedient to You in every area of my life. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen. Copyright © 27 March 2024 by Valerie Routhieaux The image belongs to me.