Torah Portion Week 18 – Mishpatim “Laws” 24-25
Exo 21:1 – 24:18
Judgements = Right rulings Strongs:
- Judgements preface scriptures (many)
- Guidebook for judges – Deut 1:16-17
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21:1-3 – Very similar to creation account 6 on, 1 off
Sabbath day of the week and Sabbath year of rest – Lev 25
- Contract employee or indentured servitude
- Also for thievery Exo 22:3
21:5-6 – Aul picture (Picture of eternal loyalty to YHWH?)
21:12 – Death penalty derived from here
21:13 – Contrasting w/accidental manslaughter – Motive matters
21:17 – Honoring parents = being holy – Lev 19
21:19 – Aka lawsuit – 1 Cor 6
21:20 – Targums says death
- Compare with Jewish Talmud Law
21:25 – Eye for an eye… (Isaiah 42, Matt 5, Deut 4)
- Book of the Natsarim 16:48-49 (156)
- Remember, he is the Lawgiver – Is 42:2-4
21:29 – Negligence – Another example – Exo 22:6
21:35 – Solomon gleaned wisdom from this ruling, we can do the same today, glean, realizing there cannot be a verse for every single scenario. But these give us the heart of the father.
21:36 – In general, Yahusha was preparing his people for a time without the temple, a time where we should be looking to forgive one another, rather than to be quick to run to court to essentially sue each other. Hos 2
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22:2 – A little clearer in the NASB
22:3 – Read Targum on this one
22:14 – Just like in today’s world, if we break something of our neighbors in our possession, then we make it right.
22:15 – Example: riding in the car together and it breaks down (owner knows you didn’t do anything to cause the issue)
22:16-17 – Entice Strongs – Entice definition
- Compare with Deut 22:28-29 – Bible Hub w/ newer versions – “Lay hold”
22:18 – Torah mockers will use this (we are in dispersion/Egypt/daughter of Babylon with governing rules – did Daniel go around and kill witches and such?)
22:22-24 – 2 Esdras 2:20-23 & James 1:27
22:25 – Sirach 29 & Lending
22:28 – Sirach 21:27 & Jude 1:9
22:29 – redemption – Numbers 18:16
22:30 – Give everything first to Yahuah (living sacrifices) & The best (cain & Abel)
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23:1 – False witness – Deut 19:16-19
23:2 – Riots, following the crowds…
23:3 – Rich or poor among us are equal (no favoritism to the poor)
23:4-5 – Caring for your enemy – Pro 25, Matt 5 & 2 Kings 6
23:6 – Opposite of 23:3 – James 2
23:8 – Specifically, bribery (remember this section is all about justice) – Sirach 20:29
23:9 – We are still sojourners today – Lev 19, Heb 11…
23:12 – Can this still apply today? Why not (Lev 25 does state it’s for being in the land of promise, not captivity) – Lev 26, 2 Chronicles 36, Eze 20:19-21 – Read “Dust bowl” info below
23:13 – Make mention Strongs – Matt 12:27, Acts 7:43, 1 Samuel 2:12
23:14 – 3 Main harvests (including end times) – Video
23:19 – Some say this type of meat is most palatable boiled in milk.
- This practice would be cruel
- There does exist some pagan rituals, found in African tribes and Arab customs
- Another perspective 3 witnesses
23:20-23 – Yahusha –The Angel of YHWH Video – Rev 10
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The marriage
24:7 – I do! (like vows made during marriage)
24:8 – The covenant (marriage) – Matthew & Hebrews
24:10 – No man has seen the Father
24:11 – Vows, witnesses, meal and blood
What, or who is “The Glory of YHWH”? Verses
Quote from Quora
The Dust bowl of the 1930’s came about because the land was continuously farmed, and the nutrients of the land were depleted to a point that it could no longer support vegetation.
All things need to have their nutrients renewed periodically This is true of the land as well as mankind. Since the Dust bowl farmers routinely allow a portion of their land to go fallow, usually on a field rotational basis. Many even grow crops that leave a residue to be worked back into the ground, such as soy beans and corn.
God in his infinite wisdom knew that anything material would, through the process of aging, deteriorate, and that occasional renewing by the input of new nutrients would be necessary. The renewing of nutrients slows the process of deterioration, whether it is in man or plants or animals or even the land. And that is the reason for God declaring the Sabbath year.
That is also the reason why fertilization is such a necessary component of growing plants whether in your flower garden or on a large farm.
That is incidentally the reason for his declaring a Sabbath day for man.
Exodus 20:8 KJV Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
God knew that unless man’s awareness of him and his laws was renewed on a frequent basis it would eventually fade from his memory, as we see the World today.
When God put man into the garden of Eden he charged him with caring for it:
Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
This alone tells me that nature and the land needs our attention, but even further when God ejected man from the garden of Eden he told Adam that his punishment would be:
Genesis 3:17 through 19 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Also:
Genesis 3:23 Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.
Since man is essentially dust and needs to replenish himself through eating why would the land be any different?
