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Day 100 and 11
if someone steals an ox or sheep and then kills or sells it, the thief must
pay back five oxen for each ox stolen and for sheep, for each sheep stolen.
If a thief is caught in the act of breaking into a house and is struck and
killed in the process, the person who killed the thief is not guilty of murder.
But if it happens in daylight, the one who killed the thief is guilty of murder.
A thief who was caught must pay in full for everything he stole.
If he cannot pay, he must be sold as a slave to pay for his theft.
If someone steals an ox or a donkey or a sheep, and it is found in the thief's
possession, then the thief must pay double the value of the stolen animal.
If an animal is grazing in a field or vineyard, and the owner lets it stray
into someone else's field to graze, then the animal's owner must pay compensation
from the best of his own grain or grapes.
If you are burning thorn bushes and the fire gets out of control and spreads
into another person's field, destroying the sheaves or the uncut grain, or
the whole crop, the one who started the fire must pay for the lost crop.
Suppose someone leaves money or goods with a neighbor for safekeeping and they
are stolen from the neighbor's house.
If the thief is caught, the compensation is double the value of what was stolen.
But if the thief is not caught, the neighbor must appear before God, who
will determine if he stole the property.
Suppose there is a dispute between two people who both claim to own a
particular ox, donkey, sheep article of clothing, or any lost property.
Both parties must come before God and the person whom God declares guilty must
pay double compensation to the other.
Now suppose someone leaves a donkey ox, sheep, or any other animal with a
neighbor for safekeeping, but it dies or is injured or is taken away and no one
sees what happened, the neighbor must then take an oath in the presence of the Lord.
If the Lord confirms that the neighbor did not steal the property,
the owner must accept the verdict and no payment will be required.
But if the animal was indeed stolen, the guilty person must pay
compensation to the owner if it was torn to pieces by a wild animal.
The remains of the carcass must be shown as evidence and no
compensation will be required.
If someone borrows an animal from a neighbor and it is injured or dies when
the owner is absent, the person who borrowed it must pay full compensation.
But if the owner was present, no compensation is required and
no compensation is required.
If the animal was rented for this loss is covered by the rental fee.
If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to anyone and has
sex with her, he must pay the customary bride price and marry her.
But if her father refuses to let him marry her, the man must still pay him an amount
equal to the bride price of a virgin.
You must not allow a sorcerers to live.
Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal must certainly be put to death.
Anyone who sacrifices to any God other than the Lord must be destroyed.
You must not mistreat or oppress foreigners in any way.
Remember, you yourselves, were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.
You must not exploit a widow or an orphan.
If you exploit them in any way and they cry out to me, then I
will certainly hear their cry.
My anger will blaze against you and I will kill you with the sword.
Then your wives will be widows and your children fatherless.
If you lend money to any of my people who are in need, do not charge
interest as a money lender would.
If you take your neighbor's cloak as security for a loan,
you must return it before sunset.
This coat may be the only blanket your neighbor has.
How can a person sleep without it?
If you do not return it, and your neighbor cries out to me for help,
then I will hear for I am merciful.
You must not dishonor God or curse any of your rulers.
You must not hold anything back.
When you give me offerings from your crops and your wine, you
must give me your firstborn sons.
You must also give me the firstborn of your cattle, sheep, and goats,
but leave the newborn animal with its mother for seven days, then
give it to me on the eighth day.
You must be my holy people.
Therefore, do not eat any animal that has been torn up and killed by wild animals.
Throw it to the dogs.
You must not pass along false rumors.
You must not cooperate with evil people by lying on the witness stand.
You must not follow the crowd in doing wrong.
When you are called to testify in a dispute, do not be swayed by the crowd
to twist justice and do not slant your testimony in favor of a person
just because that person is poor.
If you come upon your enemy's ox or donkey that has strayed
away, take it back to its owner.
If you see that the donkey of someone who hates you has collapsed under
its load, do not walk by instead.
Stop and help.
In a lawsuit, you must not deny justice to the poor.
Be sure never to charge anyone falsely with evil, never sentence an innocent
or blameless person to death for I never declare a guilty person to be innocent.
Take no bribes for a bribe makes you ignore something that you clearly see.
A bribe makes even a righteous person twist the truth.
You must not oppress foreigners.
You know what it's like to be a foreigner for you yourselves.
Were once foreigners in the land of Egypt plant and harvest your crops for six
years, but let the land be renewed and lie uncultivated during the seventh year.
Then let the poor among you harvest whatever grows on its own.
Leave the rest for wild animals to eat.
The same applies to your vineyards and olive groves.
You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but on the
seventh day, you must stop working.
This gives your ox and your donkey a chance to rest.
It also allows your slaves and the foreigners living
among you to be refreshed.
Pay close attention to all my instructions.
You must not call on the name of any other gods.
Do not even speak their names.
Each year, you must celebrate three festivals in my honor.
First, celebrate the festival of unleavened bread for seven days.
The bread you eat must be made without yeast.
Just as I commanded you.
Celebrate this festival annually at the appointed time in early spring
and the month of ABI for that is the anniversary of your departure from Egypt.
No one may appear before me without an offering.
Second, celebrate the festival of Harvest when you bring me
the first crops of your harvest.
Finally, celebrate the festival of the final harvest at the end of the
harvest season when you have harvested all the crops from your fields.
And these three times each year, every man in Israel must appear
before the sovereign, the Lord.
You must not offer the blood of my sacrificial offerings together with
any baked goods containing yeast.
And do not leave the fat from the festival offerings until the next
morning as you harvest your crops, bring the very best of the first harvest
to the house of the Lord your God.
You must not cook a young goat in its mother's milk.
See, I am sending an angel before you to protect you on your
journey and lead you safely to the place I have prepared for you.
Pay close attention to him and obey his instructions.
Do not rebel against him for he is my representative and he
will not forgive your rebellion.
But if you are careful to obey him following all my instructions, then I will
be an enemy to your enemies and I will oppose those who oppose you for my angel
will go before you and bring you into the land of the Amorites, Hittites parasites,
Canaanites hives, and Jebusites.
So you may live there and I will destroy them completely.
You must not worship the gods of these nations or serve them in any
way or imitate their evil practices.
Instead, you must utterly destroy them and smash their sacred pillars.
You must serve only the Lord your God.
If you do, I will bless you with food and water and I will protect you from illness.
There will be no miscarriages or infertility in your land, and I
will give you long, full lives.
I will send my terror ahead of you and create panic among all
the people whose lands you invade.
I will make all your enemies turn and run.
I will send Terra ahead of you to drive out the high
bites Canaanites and Hittites.
But I will not drive them out in a single year because the land would
become desolate and the wild animals would multiply and threaten you.
I will drive them out a little at a time until your population has increased
enough to take possession of the land.
And I will fix your boundaries from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean
Sea and from the Eastern wilderness to the Euphrates River.
I will hand over to you.
The people now living in the land and you will drive them out ahead of you.
Make no treaties with them or their gods.
They must not live in your land or they will cause you to sin against me.
If you serve their gods, you will be caught in the trap of idolatry.
Then the Lord instructed Moses.
Come up here to me and bring along Aaron Naab, AB Bayou, and 70 of Israel's elders.
All of you must worship from a distance.
Only Moses is allowed to come near to the Lord.
The others must not come near and none of the other people are allowed
to climb up the mountain with him.
Then Moses went down to the people and repeated all the instructions and
regulations The Lord had given him, all the people answered with one voice.
We will do everything the Lord has commanded.
Then Moses carefully wrote down all the Lord's instructions.
Early.
The next morning, Moses got up and built an altar at the foot of the mountain.
He also set up 12 pillars, one for each of the 12 tribes of Israel.
Then he sent some of the young Israelite men to present burnt
offerings and to sacrifice bulls as peace offerings to the Lord.
Moses drained half the blood from these animals into basins.
The other half he splattered against the altar.
Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people.
Again, they all responded, we will do everything the Lord has commanded.
We will obey.
Then Moses took the blood from the basins and splattered it over.
The people declaring, look, this blood confirms the covenant
the Lord has made with you and giving you these instructions.
Then Moses Aaron Naab, AB Bayou, and the 70 Elders of
Israel climbed up the mountain.
There.
They saw the God of Israel under his feet.
There seemed to be a surface of brilliant blue lapis lly as clear as the sky
itself, and though these nobles of Israel gazed upon God, he did not destroy them.
In fact, they ate a covenant meal eating and drinking in his presence.
Then the Lord said to Moses, Come up to me on the mountain, stay there, and I
will give you the tablets of stone on which I have inscribed the instructions
and commands so you can teach the people.
So Moses and his assistant Joshua, set out and Moses climbed up the mountain of God.
Moses told the elders, stay here and wait for us until we come back.
Aaron and her are here with you.
If anyone has a dispute while I am gone consult with them.
Then Moses climbed up the mountain and the cloud covered it, and the glory of
the Lord settled down on Mount Sinai and the cloud covered it for six days.
On the seventh day, the Lord called to Moses from inside the cloud.
To the Israelites at the foot of the mountain.
The glory of the Lord appeared at the summit, like a consuming fire.
Then Moses disappeared into the cloud as he climbed higher up the mountain.
He remained on the mountain for 40 days and 40 nights.
This concludes today's immerse reading experience.
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