Title: Exodus 22
Content Exodus 22:1-17
Continuing from Chapter 21, this is the compensation policy for causing damage to neighbors.
① In case of theft, the cattle must pay five times compensation and the sheep four times, and even if they sell their own bodies, they must pay compensation. If they are beaten to death while stealing, they are not responsible for it (verses 1-4).
② If an animal harms another's field, it must repay it with the best of its own field (verse 5).
③ In case of damage caused by fire, the person who set the fire must compensate (Section 6).
④ If you lose someone else's belongings, you must pay double the amount after covering up your intentions (verses 7-9).
⑤ In case of loss in the possession of another's animal, no compensation is made if there is no intentionality (verses 10-13).
⑥ If the borrowed thing is damaged or dies, it will not be compensated when it is with the owner, but if it is not with the owner, it must be compensated (verses 14-15).
⑦ If you lie with a virgin, you must take her as your wife, but if her father refuses, you must compensate with money (verses 16-17).
The reason why the rules for compensation are detailed and reflects various social life as it is is to expose that you are a sinner who cannot fully and thoroughly follow all these rules.
Exodus 22:18-31
① The shaman must not be left alive (verse 18).
② Anyone who commits fornication with animals must be put to death (verse 19).
③Those who sacrifice to other gods must be destroyed (verse 20).
④ The Lord will strike down those who oppress or mistreat the stranger, orphan or widow (verses 21-24).
⑤ You do not receive any interest from the poor of your neighbours, and you must return the clothes you took before sunset (verses 25-27).
⑥ Do not curse or curse the judge and the people's servants (verse 28).
⑦ Give the harvest and the firstborn to the Lord, but do not delay (verses 29-30).
⑧ Do not eat meat torn by animals in the field (verse 31).
These ordinances are a matter of who one becomes one with. In other words, it is a question of whether to live separately as partakers of God's covenant, which works to save Israel and reveal God's God, or whether to live as it is in the Egyptian world. In other words, a fortune-teller is a partner with a demon, and sexual intercourse is to become one with the other person, so to have a relationship with an animal is not only to become like an animal and give up being human, but also to defile the meaning of God's salvation. it can't be
Those who live by demonstrating God's love, mercy, and compassion are priests, knowing that you have become strangers, and that you have been saved by God's love in the same situation as widows and widows. It is a country. In fact, Israel was completely breaking all these rules.
At the time of Prophet Amos, Israel was revealing its righteousness by offering sacrifices to God by lying on pawned clothes next to the altar (Amos 2:6-8). In the end, Israel was a human representative who had no choice but to reproduce Adam's failure. Then, today, we should know that we are revealed as criminals through the law and live our lives by showing the mercy of the Lord on the cross. Because only that can overcome judgment (James 2:9-13).