Come Follow Me: Reading: Exodus 21-23

 Reading: Exodus 21


Laws by which the people of Moses were governed.

vs 2 Bought servants were freed in the 7th year. (patterned after the Sabbath)

vs 12 Capital punishment


Reading: Exodus 22


Every person should be accountable for his own sins and transgressions and make restitution accordingly. See vs 9

vs 16 If a man takes away a woman’s virginity (by common consent, he should marry her).

Vs 22 Do good my widows and fatherless.

Vs 25 Don’t take things at an interest when you are helping out someone

vs 29 Give first fruits to God (not leftovers)

vs 31 Be holy


Reading: Exodus 23


vs 1 bearing false witness and creating false reports is entirely wrong. Before you judge other people that do so, make sure you aren’t justifying yourself in doing the same thing in any measure. Learn to do better.

Vs 9 Do not oppress strangers. Be welcoming and helpful to others.

Vs 11 On the 7th year, let things grow and be taken by the poor. (patterned after the Sabbath.)

vs 12 Reminder of the Sabbath being a day of worship.

Vs 13 Do not acknowledge any other gods.

Vs 14 Three important feasts to be kept to the Lord every year:

vs 15 The Feast of Unleavened Bread

vs 16 The Feast of Harvest; and The Feast of Ingathering

vs 17 Three times a year shall all males appear before God.

Vs 20-23 Is the Angel that attended to the Israelites Jesus, in His pre-mortal life?

25 And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.

Other peoples will be cast out to make way for Israel in Cannon. The Israelites are not to adopt the ways of these people or worship their Gods.




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