Stipulations of the Covenant (chapters 4 – 26)

2. Stipulations of the Covenant (chapters 4 – 26) • Moral Law (4:44 – 11:32) • Ceremonial Law (12:1 – 16:17) • Civil Law (16:18 – 26:19)

3. Section C - Civil Law • The Importance of Justice (ch 16:18 - 20) • Forbidden forms of Worship (ch 16:21 – 17:7) • Laws regarding priests, judges, kings(ch. 17) • Provision for Priests and Levities (ch. 18) • What to Avoid(ch. 18:9 – 14) • A New Prophet like Moses (ch. 18:15 -22) • Cities of Refuge, Boundaries, Witnesses (ch 19) • Warfare Laws (ch. 20)

4. Section C - Civil Law • Atonement for Unsolved Murders (ch 21:1 -9) • Wives, Firstborn Sons, Rebellious Kids (ch 21) • A Cursed Man Is Hanged on a Tree (ch 21:22 - 23) • Various Laws (ch. 22) • Unclean and Excluded (ch. 23) • Divorce, Miscellaneous, and Marriage Laws (ch. 24 – 25) • Firstfruits and Tithes (ch. 26)

5. Divorce Laws (24:1 – 4) • Why could a man divorce his wife? • “indecency” – literally “nakedness”; suggests indecent exposure, not adultery, for that would be punishable by death. • Once you divorce a women, and she remarries, you couldn’t remarry her if that marriage for some reason ended. • The Law prevents frivolous divorces, since the wife could not return to her first husband.

6. Miscellaneous Laws (24:5 – 25:4) • A newly married man couldn’t not be drafted into military service for the first year of marriage (v. 5) • When someone makes a loan they couldn’t receive a “mill/upper millstone” as collateral. Because this was the source of livelihood for many families. (v. 6) • Kidnapping for the purpose of selling someone into slavery was against the law and punishable by death. (v. 7)

7. Miscellaneous Laws (24:5 – 25:4) • In cases of leprosy make sure you follow the instructions according to all that Levites directed. • Miriam was used as an example (Num 12:10 - 15)

8. Miscellaneous Laws (24:5 – 25:4) • When you go to collect on a loan follow these instructions (v. 10 – 13) • Don’t go into his house to collect • Wait for him to come to you to repay • And if the man is poor and he offer you his “cloak” as a form of collateral, then you are to make sure that it is returned to him before the sun goes down. • Why? • To protect the integrity and dignity of someone who has to borrow money.

9. Miscellaneous Laws (24:5 – 25:4) • Don’t exploit people who are poor (v. 14) • You pay the man his due wage on the day he works otherwise you are guilty of sin (v. 15) • Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children (v. 16) • Children shall not be put to death because of their fathers. (v. 16) • Each one shall be put to death for his own sin (v. 16)

10. Miscellaneous Laws (24:5 – 25:4) • We don’t pervert justice among the alien, the fatherless, or the widow. (v. 17, 19 - 21) • Why? Because you were a “slave” in Egypt and God rescued you from that captivity (v 18, 22) • Practical ways to support the “needy” are given • Unripe or overlooked grain, olives, and grapes were to be left behind to show compassion for those who were allowed to glean for food. • Care for the poor required the poor to work • This promoted dignity and respect!

13. Miscellaneous Laws (24:5 – 25:4) • We don’t pervert justice among the alien, the fatherless, or the widow. (v. 17, 19 - 21) • Why? Because you were a “slave” in Egypt and God rescued you from that captivity (v 18, 22) • Practical ways to support the “needy” are given • Unripe or overlooked grain, olives, and grapes were to be left behind to show compassion for those who were allowed to glean for food. • Care for the poor required the poor to work • This promoted dignity and respect!

14. If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty, then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense. Forty stripes may be given to him, but no more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight. (Deuteronomy 23:19 – 20)

15. Then he had Jesus scourged and delivered him to be crucified

17. Helping Your Brother Out (25:5 – 10) • Bloodline were everything in Israelite culture. • So to preserve the family lines guidelines where put into place to aid women whose husbands die • If a man dies and he left no so/no heir then the wife would be cared for by her brother-in-law. • They would seek to have a male child together who would bear the name of the deceased brother

18. Helping Your Brother Out (25:5 – 10) • Now what happens if the brother-in-law does want his sister-in-law to come and live with him and have sex with her? • She shall go up to the “elder gate” and explain the dilemma, then the elders would then go and have a sit down with the brother-in-law • If he still doesn’t want to perform his “duty” then she will pull his sandal off his foot and “spit” in his face. • And his home will now be “disgraced”

20. Measuring Weights (25:13 - 16) • You will not have “two kinds” of WEIGHTS in your bag • You will not have two kinds of MEASURES in your house • A full and fair weight/measure so that you will be BLESSED with long days in the land • To act DISHONESTLY is an abomination to the LORD your God!

21. Remember Amalek (25:17 -19) • Amalekites were descendants of Esau who lived south and east of the Salt Sea • The Lord’s judgment is against Amalek because of their attack of Israel at Rephidim during the exodus. • As Israel is about to enter the Promised Land, the Lord reminds them of this obligation