Moses gives God’s instructions regarding woman who have been captured in battle. These regulations will be for wars after the conquest of the Promised Land. God already addressed through Moses how the upcoming battles were to be conducted. The ones with the inhabitants from the Promised Land were to result in total loss of life. […]
Moses answers my question from before about murders where there wasn’t an eye witness. God calls for all those around the incident to answer for it. Blood still had to be shed to atone for the blood of the slain person. God required blood for blood, eye for an eye, hand for a hand and […]
Moses gives the people instructions on how to deal with those they go to war against. One set of instructions is for far away encounters and the second is for the land God is giving them. When I first started reading our passage my jaw was dropping as I read about offering peace first. Surely […]
Moses shares God’s standard for convicting a person of a crime. There must be at least two witnesses to the offense before someone can be convicted. I like reading mysteries. I was thinking about the fact that in these stories there is more often than not no eye witnesses. In many crimes in real life […]
Moses briefly addresses property boundary rules. But this issue is very important to the lives of the people. When Israel finally rests from conquering the inhabitants of the Promised Land, it will be divided between the tribes, clans, and families. At that time the boundaries will be “set in stone.” Not only are these newly […]