Exodus 21:18-36
A high view of human life is demonstrated by fixed, limited penalties - one crime, one punishment.
These are the rulings of a God who cares: who is 'full of compassion'(22:27)
The legislation looks forward to the settled agricultural life of Canaan - Israel's rebelliousness had not yet condemned the people to 40 years in the Sinai peninsula.
The section may be summarized as follows:
General instructions about worship.20:22-26
Civil laws: (21:1-23:13) the right of slaves; manslaughter and injury to human life;
These regulations fill out in detail the summary of 20:1-7
She shall not go free: Her master still has responsibility for his slave-wife.
Revenge/retaliation has strict limits: a life for a life, not an ongoing blood-feud. This is the famous lex talionis(復仇法): a ruling for judges. In the area of personal relationships, Jesus ruled out vengeance altogether. the law of retaliation, whereby a punishment resembles the offence committed in kind and degree. "the lex talionis of feud(世仇) violence and blood money"
How?
Respect the human life for each person!
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