Category: Jeff’s translation

Exodus 26

Exodus 26:1 “Further instructions: you should make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen and blue and purple and scarlet yarns; you should make them with cherubs skillfully embedded into them.

Exodus 26:2 The length of each curtain should be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits; all the curtains will be the same size.

Exodus 26:3 Five curtains should be coupled to one another, and the other five curtains should be coupled to one another.

Exodus 26:4 And you should make loops of blue on the edge of the outermost curtain in the first set. Likewise, you should make loops on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.

Exodus 26:5 You should make fifty loops on one curtain, and you should make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is in the second set; the loops will be opposite one another.

Exodus 26:6 And you should make fifty clasps of gold and couple the curtains one to the other with the clasps, so that the tabernacle may be a single whole.

Exodus 26:7 “You should also make curtains of goats’ hair for a tarp over the tabernacle; you should make eleven such curtains.

Exodus 26:8 The length of each curtain should be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits. The eleven curtains should be the same size.

Exodus 26:9 You should couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and the sixth curtain you should double over at the front of the tent.

Exodus 26:10 You should make fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in one set, and fifty loops on the edge of the curtain that is outermost in the second set.

Exodus 26:11 “You should make fifty clasps of bronze, and put the clasps into the loops, and couple the tent together that it may be a single whole.

Exodus 26:12 And the part that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, will hang over the back of the tabernacle.

Exodus 26:13 And the extra that remains in the length of the curtains, the cubit on the one side, and the cubit on the other side, should hang over the sides of the tabernacle, on this side and that side, to cover it.

Exodus 26:14 And you should make for the tent a covering of tanned rams’ skins and a covering of goatskins on top.

Exodus 26:15 “You should make upright frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood.

Exodus 26:16 Ten cubits should be the length of a frame, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each frame.

Exodus 26:17 There should be two hand holds in each frame, for fitting together. You should do this for all the frames of the tabernacle.

Exodus 26:18 You should make the frames for the tabernacle: twenty frames for the south side;

Exodus 26:19 and you should make forty bases of silver under the twenty frames, two bases under one frame for its two hand holds, and two bases under the next frame for its two hand holds;

Exodus 26:20 and for the second side of the tabernacle, on the north side twenty frames,

Exodus 26:21 and their forty bases of silver, two bases under one frame, and two bases under the next frame.

Exodus 26:22 And for the rear of the tabernacle westward you should make six frames.

Exodus 26:23 And you should make two frames for corners of the tabernacle in the rear;

Exodus 26:24 they should be separate beneath, but joined at the top, at the first ring. It should be like this with both of them; they should form the two corners.

Exodus 26:25 And there should be eight frames, with their bases of silver, sixteen bases; two bases under one frame, and two bases under another frame.

Exodus 26:26 “You should make bars of acacia wood, five for the frames of the one side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 26:27 and five bars for the frames of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the frames of the side of the tabernacle at the rear westward.

Exodus 26:28 The middle bar, halfway up the frames, should run through it from end to end.

Exodus 26:29 You should overlay the frames with gold and should make their rings of gold for houses for the bars, and you should overlay the bars with gold.

Exodus 26:30 Then you should erect the tabernacle according to the judgment for it that you were shown on the mountain.

Exodus 26:31 “And you should make a veil of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen. It should be made with cherubs skillfully worked into it.

Exodus 26:32 And you should hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold, with hooks of gold, on four bases of silver.

Exodus 26:33 And you should hang the veil from the clasps and bring the ark of the reminder in there inside the veil. And the veil should separate for you the Sacred Place from the Most Sacred.

Exodus 26:34 You should put the atonement cover on the ark of the reminder in the Most Sacred Place.

Exodus 26:35 And you should set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand on the south side of the tabernacle opposite the table, and you should put the table on the north side.

Exodus 26:36 “You should make a screen door for the entrance of the tent, out of blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, embroidered with needlework.

Exodus 26:37 And you should make for the screen door five pillars of acacia and overlay them with gold. Their hooks should be made of gold, and you should cast five bases of bronze for them.

Exodus 26 quotes:

“The Golden Candlestick was the next article to be made after the Table of Shewbread. It was positioned immediately opposite the Golden Table on the South side of the Holy Place in the Sanctuary (Exodus 26:35 and 40:4, 24).When we think of a Candlestick we usually think of burning candles. This is not the case here. The Golden Candlestick was more particularly a Lampstand upon which were seven lighted lamps. This was a Candlestick having oil lamps not candles. Candles burn by self-consumption, while lamps burn by the continual supply of oil being poured into them.”

Conner, Kevin J. The Tabernacle of Moses. Bible Temple Pub., 1975. p. 41.

“As with any other building, the foundation blueprints and building structure of the tabernacle must be viewed as a unit because the building structure is dependent upon the foundation’s support. The instructions for the structural design and materials are recorded in Exodus 26:15-30, while Exodus 36:20-34 describes the construction of the components.”

Cooper, Carl. Two Covenants: The Wilderness Tabernacle is a Shadow of the Heavenly Tabernacle. Companion Press, 1993. p. 29.

” The silver was from the atonement money; everything else in the Tabernacle came from the freewill offering. Every man 20 years and older had to contribute (30:11-16). It represented redemption. Rich and poor alike had to pay. The price of redemption was the same for all. At other times, men.”

Small, P. Douglas. Principles of Worship : A Study of the Tabernacle of Moses. Revised, Alive Publications, 2013. p. 186.

Exodus 26 links:

behind curtain number 2
Exodus- connecting
putting together the holy place
the LORD among us

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 25

Exodus 25:1 Yahveh spoke to Moses, and this is what he said,

Exodus 25:2 “Speak to the people of Israel, so that they take for me a donation. You should receive the donation for me from every man whose heart moves him.

Exodus 25:3 And this is the kind of donation that you should receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze,

Exodus 25:4 blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats’ hair,

Exodus 25:5 tanned rams’ skins, goatskins, acacia wood,

Exodus 25:6 oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,

Exodus 25:7 onyx stones, and stones for setting, for the ephod and for the sacred pouch.[1]

Exodus 25:8 And let them make me a sacred place, and I will live in their midst.

Exodus 25:9 You should make it exactly as I am showing you according to the pattern of the tabernacle, and of all its furniture.

Exodus 25:10 “They should make an ark of acacia wood. Its length should be two and a half cubits, its breadth a cubit and a half, and its height a cubit and a half.

Exodus 25:11 You should overlay it with pure gold, covering it from the house and from the street. And you should make on it a border of gold around it.

Exodus 25:12 You should cast four rings of gold for it and put them on its four legs, two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.

Exodus 25:13 You should make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

Exodus 25:14 And you should put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, using them to carry the ark.

Exodus 25:15 The poles should remain in the rings of the ark; they will not be taken away from it.

Exodus 25:16 And you should put into the ark the reminder that I will give you.

Exodus 25:17 “You should make an atonement cover[2] of pure gold. Its length should be two and a half cubits, and its breadth a cubit and a half.

Exodus 25:18 And you should make two cherubs of gold; you should make them of hammered work, on the two ends of the atonement cover.

Exodus 25:19 Make one cherub on the one end, and one cherub on the other end. You should make the cherubs of one piece with the atonement cover on its two ends.

Exodus 25:20 The cherubs should spread out their wings above, overshadowing the atonement cover with their wings, their faces one to another; the faces of the cherubs should be toward the atonement cover.

Exodus 25:21 And you should put the atonement cover on the top of the ark, and in the ark you should put the reminder that I will give you.

Exodus 25:22 There I will meet with you, and from above the atonement cover, I will speak with you about all that I will give you as commands for the sons of Israel from between the two cherubs that are on the ark of the reminder.

Exodus 25:23 “You should make a table of acacia wood. Its length should be two cubits, its breadth a cubit, and its height a cubit and a half.

Exodus 25:24 You should overlay it with pure gold and make a border of gold around it.

Exodus 25:25 And you should make a rim around it a hand-breadth wide, and a border of gold around the rim.

Exodus 25:26 And you should make for it four rings of gold and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs.

Exodus 25:27 The rings should be placed close to the frame, serving as houses for the poles to carry the table.

Exodus 25:28 You should make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, and the table will be carried with these.

Exodus 25:29 And you should make its plates and dishes for incense, and its pitchers and bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you should make them of pure gold.

Exodus 25:30 And you should place the face bread on the table before me regularly.

Exodus 25:31 You should make a lampstand of pure gold. The lampstand should be made of hammered work: its base, its stem, its cups, its flower buds, and its flower petals should be of one piece with it.

Exodus 25:32 And there should be six branches going out of its sides, three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it;

Exodus 25:33 three cups made like almond blossoms, each with flower bud and flower petals, on one branch, and three cups made like almond blossoms, each with flower bud and flower petals, on the other branch – and like so for the six branches going out of the lampstand.

Exodus 25:34 And on the lampstand itself there should be four cups made like almond blossoms, with their flower buds and flower petals,

Exodus 25:35 and a flower bud of one piece with it under each pair of the six branches going out from the lampstand.

Exodus 25:36 Their flower buds and their branches should be of one piece with it, the whole of it a single piece of hammered work of pure gold.

Exodus 25:37 You should make seven lamps for it. And each of the lamps should be placed so as to give light on the space in front of it.

Exodus 25:38 Its tongs and their trays should be of pure gold.

Exodus 25:39 It, with all these utensils, should be made out of a talent of pure gold.

Exodus 25:40 And make sure that you make them following the pattern for them, which is being shown you on the mountain.

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[1] חשֶׁן = sacred pouch. Exodus 25:7; 28:4, 15, 22, 23, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30; 29:5; 35:9, 27; 39:8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21.

[2] כַּפֹּרֶת = atonement cover. (see HALOT, 4395). Exodus 25:17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22; 26:34; 30:6; 31:7; 35:12; 37:6, 7, 8, 9; 39:35; 40:20.

Exodus 25 quotes:

“The Ark of the Covenant was the only piece of furniture inside the Most Holy Place. It is significant that it was the first piece of furniture commanded to be made. However, when it came to the construction, the Ark was made after the Tabernacle itself, presumably so that it could be housed immediately (Exodus 25:9; compare 36:8-37:28).”

Dowley, Tim. The Tabernacle. Candle Books, 2001. p. 15.

“The Divine purpose in the building of the Tabernacle is summed up in the key verse found in Exodus 25:8 and 29:46-47. ‘‘Let them make me a Sanctuary that I may dwell among them.’’ This verse is the key thought of all that pertains to the Tabernacle. God’s desire is to dwell in the midst of His redeemed people on His own terms and His own grounds. God follows the pronouncement of His purpose by giving a pattern that is to be followed in the construction of His dwelling place.”

Conner, Kevin J. The Tabernacle of Moses. Bible Temple Pub., 1975. p. 8.

““And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell in their midst” (Exodus 25:8). In these words, spoken to Moses by God, we perceive the purpose for the tabernacle, namely, that God might dwell in their midst. Moses, having been well educated, and having had access to one of the best libraries in the ancient world (Acts 7:22), was the one to whom was given divine instructions on how to build the tabernacle (Exodus 25-31, 35-40). In fact, he not only received specific plans for various parts of the tabernacle, but the entire structure was to be constructed according to a pattern shown to Moses while on Mt. Sinai (Exodus 25:9, 40; 26:30; Numbers 8:4; Acts 7:44; Hebrews 8:2, 5). Many interpreters have speculated endlessly regarding what Moses saw at Mt. Sinai; they are mere speculations, however. Let us simply affirm that the tabernacle was divinely designed and be content.”

Zehr, Paul M. God Dwells with His People : A Study of Israel’s Ancient Tabernacle. Herald Press, 1981. p. 26.

Exodus 25 links:

a sacred place
Exodus- the precious presence
face bread
invaded
lights for the world
the ark of the testimony

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Thursday, August 24, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, August 23, 2017

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 24

Exodus 24:1 Then he told Moses, “Come up to Yahveh, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from a distance.

Exodus 24:2 Moses alone should come near to Yahveh, but the others should not come near, and the people should not come up with him.”

Exodus 24:3 Moses came and told the people all the words of Yahveh and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, “All the words that Yahveh has spoken we will do.”

Exodus 24:4 And Moses wrote down all the words of Yahveh. He got up early in the morning and built an altar at the foot of the mountain, with twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Exodus 24:5 And he sent young men of the sons of Israel, who offered ascending offerings and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen to Yahveh.

Exodus 24:6 And Moses took half of the blood and put it in basins, and half of the blood he threw against the altar.

Exodus 24:7 Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read it in the hearing of the people. And they said, “All that Yahveh has spoken we will keep doing, and we will remain obedient.”

Exodus 24:8 And Moses took the blood and threw it on the people and said, Notice, the blood of the covenant that Yahveh has made with you in accordance with all these words.”

Exodus 24:9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up,

Exodus 24:10 and they saw the God of Israel. There was under his feet as it were a pavement of sapphire stone, like the sky itself for clearness.

Exodus 24:11 And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they saw God and ate and drank.

Exodus 24:12 Yahveh told Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the instruction and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction.”

Exodus 24:13 So Moses rose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up into the mountain of God.

Exodus 24:14 And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. And notice, Aaron and Hur are with you. Whoever has a dispute, let him go to them.”

Exodus 24:15 Then Moses climbed the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.

Exodus 24:16 The glory of Yahveh stayed on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day he called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

Exodus 24:17 Now the appearance of the glory of Yahveh was like a devouring fire on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the sons of Israel.

Exodus 24:18 Moses entered the cloud and went up on the mountain. And Moses was on the mountain for forty days and forty nights.

Exodus 24 quotes:

“What is worth noting is that, from the beginning of Exodus to the end, the issue of divine presence was of deep concern. God assured Moses that God would be with him before Moses ever confronted Pharaoh (Exodus 3:12; 4:12). The people had worried in the wilderness about God’s » presence (Exodus 17:7). From the time when God’s “glory” (kabod), veiled + by the heavy cloud, had settled on Mount Sinai, Moses and the people had. struggled with a desire for and fear of the presence of God (Exodus 24:15). After the debacle of the golden calf, Moses was deeply concerned whether God would go with him and the people and had to be reassured by God» (Exodus 32:14). Once again, Moses had prayed for God’s presence even after | receiving the proclamation of God name (Exodus 34:9, NRSV). Now Moses’ shining face was the eloquent demonstration of God’s continuing presence.

March, W. Eugene. Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers. Abingdon Press, 2012.p. 45.

“God seemed always to appear in some semblance of human form. Naturally, many texts are too sketchy to give much of an indication, but where there is a brief hint, human form seems to have been the characteristic feature. Genesis 18 and 32; Joshua 5:13-15; Judges 13:3, 6, 8-11 and other portions clearly speak of the form by designating the theophanic individual a “man.” In addition, Exodus 24:911 and 1 Samuel 3:10, 21 record theophanies where a human appearance is strongly implied. This man-like form of the Christophany being properly emphasized, let it also be reaffirmed here that human form is not equivalent to full participation in human nature with body, soul, and spirit. This was reserved solely for the unique and permanent incarnation of Christ.”

Borland, James A. Christ in the Old Testament. Revised and expanded edition, Mentor, an imprint of Christian Focus Publications, 1999. p. 30.

“The altar was built in preparation for the sacrifice without which no covenant was considered binding. By making the people wait one day before they could officially ratify the covenant, Moses reduced the emotional influence of the Israelites’ hasty acceptance of the covenant.”

Kroll, Woodrow. Early in the Morning. Loizeaux Brothers. 1990. p. 42.

Exodus 24 links:

Exodus- access
joining up
preparing ourselves for his presence
The Gospel Choice (Gal. 4-21-31)

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Maranatha Daily Devotional – Friday, March 22, 2019
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Friday, March 24, 2023
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Monday, August 21, 2017
Maranatha Daily Devotional – Wednesday, March 24, 2021

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 23

Exodus 23:1 “You should not extend a false report. You should not join hands with a wicked person to be a malicious witness.

Exodus 23:2 You should not follow the majority to do evil, nor should you bear witness in a lawsuit, stretching with the majority, so as to stretch the truth,

Exodus 23:3 nor should you be favor a poor man in his lawsuit.

Exodus 23:4 “If you meet your enemy’s ox or his donkey getting lost, you should bring it back to him.

Exodus 23:5 If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its burden, you should refrain from leaving him under it; you should rescue it along with him.

Exodus 23:6 “You should not stretch the judgment for your poor in his lawsuit.

Exodus 23:7 Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, because I will not acquit the wicked.

Exodus 23:8 And you should take no bribe, because a bribe blinds the seeing and turns the cause of those who are in the right.

Exodus 23:9 “You should not oppress a foreign guest. You know the throat of a foreign guest, because you were foreign guests in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 23:10 ” You will plant on your land for six years and collect what it produces,

Exodus 23:11 but the seventh year you will let it stop producing, lying fallow, so that the poor of your people may eat; and so that the animals of the field may eat what they leave. You should do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

Exodus 23:12 “Six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you will stop; so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your female slave, and the foreign guest, may be refreshed.

Exodus 23:13 “Pay attention to all that I have said to you and make no mention of the names of other gods, nor let it be heard on your lips.

Exodus 23:14 “Each year, three times you should keep a feast to me.

Exodus 23:15 You should keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. Just as I commanded you, you should eat only unleavened bread for seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, because in it you came out of Egypt. No one should appear before me empty-handed.

Exodus 23:16 You should keep the Feast of Harvest, of the first picking of your crops, of what you sow in the field. You should keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in from the field the fruit of your work.

Exodus 23:17 Three times in the year all your males should appear before the Lord Yahveh.

Exodus 23:18 “You should not offer the blood of my sacrifice along with anything leavened or let any fat of my feast be left over in the morning.

Exodus 23:19 ” You should bring The first[1] of the first picking of your ground crops into the house of Yahveh your God. “You should not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

Exodus 23:20 “Notice, I am sending an agent before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.

Exodus 23:21 Listen carefully to him and obey his voice; do not rebel against him, because he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.

Exodus 23:22 “But if you carefully obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries.

Exodus 23:23 “When my agent goes before you and brings you to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, and I make them disappear,

Exodus 23:24 you should not bow down to their gods nor serve them, nor do as they do, but you should utterly destroy them and break their pillars in pieces.

Exodus 23:25 You should serve Yahveh your God, and he will bless your bread and your water, and I will take sickness away from among you.

Exodus 23:26 No one will miscarry or be barren in your land; I will fulfill the number of your days.

Exodus 23:27 I will send my fear before you and will throw into confusion all the people against whom you will come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs from you.

Exodus 23:28 And I am sending hornets before you, which will drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.

Exodus 23:29 I will not drive them out from before you in one year, or else the land will become a sinister desolation and the wild animals increase against you.

Exodus 23:30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you, until you have multiplied and possess the land.

Exodus 23:31 And I will set your border from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the open country to the Euphrates, because I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you will drive them out before you.

Exodus 23:32 You will make no agreement with them and their gods.

Exodus 23:33 They should not live in your land, or else they would make you fail me; because if you serve their gods, it will definitely be a trap to you.”

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[1]רֵאשִׁית = first. Exodus 23:19; 34:26.

Exodus 23 quotes:

“It is not accidental that these laws appear side by side in Exodus 23. The editor uses the literary technique of “inclusion” to tie these two very different regulations together into a coherent unit. This is achieved by repeating a key word or words at the beginning and end of the unit, to serve as an inclusio (“bookends”) for the material in between.”

Lowery, R. H. Sabbath and Jubilee. Chalice Press, 2000. p. 52.

“God graciously responded to Moses’ desire to know who would go with him, saying, “My Presence will go with you” (verse 14)—that is, with Moses. (The “you” is singular in Hebrew.) Thus, because of Moses’ intercession, God partly reversed His decision not to go with the Israelites (verse 3); He would agree to go “with Moses.” We can understand God’s “Presence” to be the special angel mentioned earlier, in whom God’s Name was placed (Exodus 23:21).”

Hale, Thomas, and Stephen Thorson. The Applied Old Testament Commentary. 1st ed, David C. Cook, 2007. p. 271.

“These laws are given in the context of the covenant renewal. The Lord will work marvels for His people, provided that they keep His commandments. They are not to make treaties with the Chanaanites, “else they will become a snare among you.” They are to destroy the sacred asheroth or poles in honor of the goddess of fertility and to destroy also the masseboth or sacred pillars in honor of Baal (see Exodus 23, 23-33).”

Murphy, Roland E. The Book of Exodus. Paulist Press (Paulist Fathers), 1960. p. 22.

Exodus 23 links:

a sinister desolation
celebrating provision
Exodus- the three-way covenant
following the angel
kachad
the land Sabbath

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EXODUS in Jeff’s library

Exodus 22

Exodus 22:1 “If a person steals an ox or a sheep, and kills it or sells it, he should repay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

Exodus 22:2 “If a thief is found breaking in and is attacked and dies as a result, there should be no bloodguilt for him,

Exodus 22:3 but if the sun has risen on him, there should be bloodguilt for him. He will surely pay. If he has nothing, then he should be sold for his theft.

Exodus 22:4 If the stolen animal is found alive in his possession, whether it is an ox or a donkey or a sheep, he should pay double.

Exodus 22:5 “If a person causes a field or vineyard to be grazed over or lets his animal loose and it feeds in another person’s field, he should recompense the person from the best in his own field and in his own vineyard.

Exodus 22:6 “If fire breaks out and catches in weeds so that the stacked grain or the standing grain or the field is consumed, the one who started the fire should fully recompense for the loss.

Exodus 22:7 “If a person gives to his neighbor money or goods to keep safe, and it is stolen from the person’s house, then, if the thief is found, that one should pay double.

Exodus 22:8 If the thief is not found, the owner of the house will come near to God to show whether or not he has put his hand to his neighbor’s property.

Exodus 22:9 For every breach of trust, whether it is for an ox, for a donkey, for a sheep, for a cloak, or for any kind of lost thing, of which one says, ‘This is it,’ the case of both parties should come before God. The one whom God condemns will pay double to that one’s neighbor.

Exodus 22:10 “If a person gives to their neighbor a donkey or an ox or a sheep or any animal to keep safe, and it dies or is injured or is driven away, without anyone seeing it,

Exodus 22:11 an oath by Yahveh should be between them both to see whether or not someone has put their hand to their neighbor’s property. The owner should accept the oath, and should not seek recompense.

Exodus 22:12 But if it is stolen from that person, they should seek recompense from its owner.

Exodus 22:13 If it is torn by animals, let them bring it as evidence. They should not seek recompense for what has been torn.

Exodus 22:14 “If a person borrows anything of their neighbor, and it is injured or dies, the owner not being with it, they should fully recompense the loss.

Exodus 22:15 If the owner was with it, they should not seek recompense; if it was rented, only the rental fee is due.

Exodus 22:16 “If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married and has sex with her, he should give the bride-price for her and make her his wife.

Exodus 22:17 If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he should still pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.

Exodus 22:18 “You will not allow a sorceress to live.

Exodus 22:19 “Whoever has sex with an animal should be put to death.

Exodus 22:20 “Whoever sacrifices to any god, other than Yahveh alone, should be set apart for destruction.

Exodus 22:21 “You should not take advantage of a foreign guest or oppress him, because you were foreign guests in the land of Egypt.

Exodus 22:22 You should not mistreat any widow or fatherless child.

Exodus 22:23 If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry,

Exodus 22:24 and my wrath will burn, and I will kill you with the sword, and your wives will become widows and your children fatherless.

Exodus 22:25 “If you lend money to any of my poor people with you, you should not be like a creditor to him; you should not require interest from him.

Exodus 22:26 If you take your neighbor’s cloak in pledge, you should return it to him before the sun goes down,

Exodus 22:27 because that is his only covering; it is his cloak for his body; in what else would he sleep? Then if he cries out to me, I will respond, because I am compassionate.

Exodus 22:28 “You should not demean God, nor curse a leader of your people.

Exodus 22:29 “You should not delay offering from the fullness of your harvest and from the outpouring of your presses. The firstborn of your sons you should give to me.

Exodus 22:30 You should do the same with your oxen and with your sheep: seven days it should be with its mother; on the eighth day you should give it to me.

Exodus 22:31 “You should be sacred for me. For that reason, you should not eat any flesh that is torn by animals in the field; you should throw it to the dogs.

Exodus 22 quotes:

“The commandment tells us that we are not to steal (Exodus 20:15). This commandment assumes the privilege and right of ownership by individuals, families, business establishments, corporations, partnerships, and churches. Stiff penalties are meted out to dissuade a potential thief, or, in the case of a theft, have the thief make restitution to compensate the victim (Exodus 22:1-15).”

DeMar, Gary. God and Government. American Vision Press, 1982. p. 94.

“The person who is responsible for accidental damage or who has borrowed something is required to make good what the owner has lost. A singlefold restitution takes place in order to match the loss. In the case of theft, by contrast, the restitution is usually double (Exodus 22:7).”

Poythress, Vern S. The Shadow of Christ in the Law of Moses. P & R Pub., 1995. p. 126.

“A sorceress claims to be able to use supernatural power in order to cast an evil spell upon people, causing accidents, sickness or death. A more familiar term in those countries such as in Africa where sorcery is still practiced is “witchcraft.” The practice of sorcery is idolatry. It gives honor to the powers of Satan rather than to the true God. That is why the Lord demanded the death penalty, just as every form of open idolatry in Israel’s theocracy was punished with death. In many cultures and societies in the world today the power of witchcraft is still one of the greatest forces of evil.”

Wendland, Ernst H. Exodus. Northwestern Pub. House, 1984. p. 150.

Exodus 22 links:

covenant household property loss liability rights
Exodus- a holy people
laws about giving
set apart for destruction
taking advantage

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