You are to be my holy people

Exodus 22:18-31

Do not allow a sorceress to live.

“Anyone who has sexual relations with an animal is to be put to death.

Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.

Do not take advantage of the widow or the fatherless.  If you do and they cry out to me, I will certainly hear their cry. 

If you lend money to one of my people among you who is needy, do not treat it like a business deal; charge no interest. If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, return it by sunset.

Do not blaspheme God or curse the ruler of your people.

You must give me the firstborn of your sons. Do the same with your cattle and your sheep. Let them stay with their mothers for seven days, but give them to me on the eighth day.

You are to be my holy people. So do not eat the meat of an animal torn by wild beasts.

Witchcraft is condemned in the New Testament too but the death penalty was a ruling for these early times.

Bestuakutt and homosexual acts and not on Leviticus were both capital crimes in early Israel.

Why?

We are God's holy people, so we have to live a holy life.

God hates evil things, we have to separate them from evil things.

Treat our neighbor with love, so don't treat the poor men like a business deal; charge no interest.

Devote the one that belongs to the Lord and don't hasetate. Like the Sunday worship and one-tenth are belonged to the Lord.

How?

Carful to obey the word of the Lord with fear heart.