Social Laws {Exodus 22:15-23:9}
Robin G (#26)
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1. Exodus 22:15 (NABRE)
When a man seduces a virgin who is not betrothed, and lies with her, he shall make her his wife by paying the bride price.
2. Exodus 22:16 (NABRE)
If her father refuses to give her to him, he must still pay him the bride price for virgins.
3. Exodus 22:17 (NABRE)
You shall not let a woman who practices sorcery live.
4. Exodus 22:18 (NABRE)
Anyone who lies with an animal shall be put to death.
5. Exodus 22:19 (NABRE)
Whoever sacrifices to any god, except to the Lord alone, shall be put under the ban.
6. Exodus 22:20 (NABRE)
You shall not oppress or afflict a resident alien, for you were once aliens residing in the land of Egypt.
7. Exodus 22:21 (NABRE)
You shall not wrong any widow or orphan.
8. Exodus 22:22 (NABRE)
If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely listen to their cry.
9. Exodus 22:23 (NABRE)
My wrath will flare up, and I will kill you with the sword; then your own wives will be widows, and your children orphans.
10. Exodus 22:24 (NABRE)
If you lend money to my people, the poor among you, you must not be like a money lender; you must not demand interest from them.
11. Exodus 22:25, 26 (NABRE)
If you take your neighbor’s cloak as a pledge, you shall return it to him before sunset; for this is his only covering; it is the cloak for his body. What will he sleep in? If he cries out to me, I will listen; for I am compassionate.
12. Exodus 22:27 (NABRE)
You shall not despise God, nor curse a leader of your people.
13. Exodus 22:28 (NABRE)
You shall not delay the offering of your harvest and your press. You shall give me the firstborn of your sons.
14. Exodus 22:29 (NABRE)
You must do the same with your oxen and your sheep; for seven days the firstling may stay with its mother, but on the eighth day you must give it to me.
15. Exodus 22:30 (NABRE)
You shall be a people sacred to me. Flesh torn to pieces in the field you shall not eat; you must throw it to the dogs.
16. Exodus 23:1 (NABRE)
You shall not repeat a false report. Do not join your hand with the wicked to be a witness supporting violence.
17. Exodus 23:2 (NABRE)
You shall not follow the crowd in doing wrong. When testifying in a lawsuit, you shall not follow the crowd in perverting justice.
18. Exodus 23:3 (NABRE)
You shall not favor the poor in a lawsuit.
19. Exodus 23:4 (NABRE)
When you come upon your enemy’s ox or donkey going astray, you must see to it that it is returned.
20. Exodus 23:5 (NABRE)
When you notice the donkey of one who hates you lying down under its burden, you should not desert him; you must help him with it.
21. Exodus 23:6 (NABRE)
You shall not pervert justice for the needy among you in a lawsuit.
22. Exodus 23:7 (NABRE)
You shall keep away from anything dishonest. The innocent and the just you shall not put to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.
23. Exodus 23:8 (NABRE)
Never take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the clear-sighted and distorts the words of the just.
24. Exodus 23:9 (NABRE)
You shall not oppress a resident alien; you well know how it feels to be an alien, since you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt.

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