June 18, 2018 - Day 71 - Exodus 21
I am writing from my hotel room in Salt Lake City, UT.
Exodus 21:
Alright we've got some laws!! I wonder what we have in store.
These are from God. Ever heard someone say that God is the same today, yesterday and always?
lol yeah me too.
If you buy a Hebrew servant, you can keep him for six years; but you have to let him go on the seventh. If he's alone, he's free to go. If he's married when he gets purchased, they are both free to go.
However, if the master provides a wife and she has kids, the wife and kids now belong to the master; but the slave is free to go after the seven years. Well that sucks.
Though if the slave doesn't want to leave his master and wife and kids, he can stay a slave for life; but he gets his ear pierced first.
If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she doesn't get to be free like the dudes after seven years. If the master doesn't like her, she gets a chance to redeem herself. He also cannot sell her to foreigners.
If her gives her away to his son, she now gets the rights of a daughter; though we are not told what those are. If he marries another woman, he still must give the servant clothes, food and marital rights. If he fails to do so, then she is free to go.
Now on to some death penalties!
Strike someone with a fatal blow? death penalty
Unless its not on purpose and God lets it happen (whatever that means), then that person can flee to wherever God tells them to go?
Plan to kill someone and then do it? death penalty
Attack your parents? death penalty
Kidnap someone? death penalty
Curse your parents? death penalty
Hurt someone but to where they can walk with a staff? Thats okay. Just make sure you pay the injured person for loss of time and make sure that they get better. This one I like. We should do this.
Beat your slave and they die? You'll be punished.
Beat your slave and they are okay after a day or two? No problem. After all, "the slave is their property."
Fighting and accidentally hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely? Just a fine. But if the baby dies, you die too. Baby comes out with one hand? You now have one hand. You get the idea.
Have a slave and you knock out their eye or their tooth? You gotta let them go. Sorry.
If a bull kills someone, the owner won't be held responsible; but you gotta stone and the bull and you can't eat the meat.
Now if this bull is a repeat offender and the owner has been warned and doesn't do anything about it, you gotta stone the owner too. It doesn't say anything about the owner's meat. It says this also applies if a bull kills a son or daughter. Aren't we all sons and daughters? hmm.
If a bull kills a slave, then the bull owner has to pay a fine to the master, and then of course the bull is stoned.
Let's say you uncover a pit and an ox or donkey falls into it. Well you gotta pay the owner for the dead animal and then take the animal with you.
You have a bull and it kills another bull. What do you do? Well, you sell the live bull and divide the money; and then divide up the dead bull meat. Except if the owner knew his bull was a murderer, then that dude gets fined.
Did anyone else read this chapter?
I know I've been accused before as being disrespectful or making fun of the Bible. I am genuinely interested and just trying to read through this like someone reading it for the first time (since I am reading it all the way through for the first time); and calling it like it is.
This chapter is dumb, y'all. Just is. Sorry.
If God can't handle our honesty, who can?
Exodus 21:
Alright we've got some laws!! I wonder what we have in store.
These are from God. Ever heard someone say that God is the same today, yesterday and always?
lol yeah me too.
If you buy a Hebrew servant, you can keep him for six years; but you have to let him go on the seventh. If he's alone, he's free to go. If he's married when he gets purchased, they are both free to go.
However, if the master provides a wife and she has kids, the wife and kids now belong to the master; but the slave is free to go after the seven years. Well that sucks.
Though if the slave doesn't want to leave his master and wife and kids, he can stay a slave for life; but he gets his ear pierced first.
If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she doesn't get to be free like the dudes after seven years. If the master doesn't like her, she gets a chance to redeem herself. He also cannot sell her to foreigners.
If her gives her away to his son, she now gets the rights of a daughter; though we are not told what those are. If he marries another woman, he still must give the servant clothes, food and marital rights. If he fails to do so, then she is free to go.
Now on to some death penalties!
Strike someone with a fatal blow? death penalty
Unless its not on purpose and God lets it happen (whatever that means), then that person can flee to wherever God tells them to go?
Plan to kill someone and then do it? death penalty
Attack your parents? death penalty
Kidnap someone? death penalty
Curse your parents? death penalty
Hurt someone but to where they can walk with a staff? Thats okay. Just make sure you pay the injured person for loss of time and make sure that they get better. This one I like. We should do this.
Beat your slave and they die? You'll be punished.
Beat your slave and they are okay after a day or two? No problem. After all, "the slave is their property."
Fighting and accidentally hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely? Just a fine. But if the baby dies, you die too. Baby comes out with one hand? You now have one hand. You get the idea.
Have a slave and you knock out their eye or their tooth? You gotta let them go. Sorry.
If a bull kills someone, the owner won't be held responsible; but you gotta stone and the bull and you can't eat the meat.
Now if this bull is a repeat offender and the owner has been warned and doesn't do anything about it, you gotta stone the owner too. It doesn't say anything about the owner's meat. It says this also applies if a bull kills a son or daughter. Aren't we all sons and daughters? hmm.
If a bull kills a slave, then the bull owner has to pay a fine to the master, and then of course the bull is stoned.
Let's say you uncover a pit and an ox or donkey falls into it. Well you gotta pay the owner for the dead animal and then take the animal with you.
You have a bull and it kills another bull. What do you do? Well, you sell the live bull and divide the money; and then divide up the dead bull meat. Except if the owner knew his bull was a murderer, then that dude gets fined.
Did anyone else read this chapter?
I know I've been accused before as being disrespectful or making fun of the Bible. I am genuinely interested and just trying to read through this like someone reading it for the first time (since I am reading it all the way through for the first time); and calling it like it is.
This chapter is dumb, y'all. Just is. Sorry.
If God can't handle our honesty, who can?
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