Our text this week, Exodus 22:9-20, as we continue with God's commandments for Moses to teach the children of Israel, He continues to declare the righteous judgment where normal contentions arise, such as giving your neighbor something to keep and it disappears or your animal that they were keeping is driven off or stolen. God explains how to think of these situations that can create long term anger between neighbors. By giving the law, God is instructing how to have peace between neighbors because if people judge for themselves what is fair, their bias tends heavily toward themselves. God lays out conditions to resolve that potential animosity including through the taking of oaths. Oaths are a means for both parties to say there is a greater judge who will not let people take His name in vain. The passage then moves on to how to deal with a woman who is seduced, not allowing a witch to live, not having sexual relations with an animal and sacrificing to a false god. This is a passage where it is easy to just say these are miscellaneous laws, but God is an orderly god, so we need to think how do these things tie together. I would argue that these are examples of escalating rebellion to God's order. The worst of which is to sacrifice to a false god. We should be very careful not to think that sins like bestiality, as much as an abomination that they are, is actually worse the sacrificing to a false god.
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