Our text this week, Exodus 21:12-19, God continued to give details on specific applications of the ten commandments. After discussing selling your daughter into slavery for the purposes of betrothal, He explained the laws about murder. He started with declaring the penalty which He had already declared to Noah, death. But then He dealt with some of the more complicated cases, how judgment is required. If they killed someone where it looked like an accident, the killer had to flee to the place appointed, but then judgments needed to happen. Did he lie in wait? Did he premeditate the act? In those cases, the accidental appearance is not to allow the person to escape. Another case is brought up where the victim didn't die. If it is your father or mother, that doesn't matter that you didn't strike hard enough to kill, it was still worthy of death. If you kidnap someone, it is still worthy of death. As we consider these specific regulations of violence, we should remember that there were a lot of people in this group, almost certainly in the millions. They were also almost all without faith. They also hadn't be constrained by the light of the law, so we shouldn't think of these laws as spoken just in case they were needed. We should read these as God working to make His people different from the people around them, because they considered life to have value.
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