Exodus 21: Justice In The Wilderness

About this episode

This episode explores Exodus 21, discussing its implications on justice and societal building in the context of Old Testament law.

Exodus 21 gets quoted all the time and understood far less. We’re reading “Justice in the Wilderness,” where God takes Israel from the thunder of Mount Sinai into the gritty realities of building a society: debt, labor, injury, restitution, negligence, and what happens when power goes unchecked. If you’ve ever wondered how the Old Testament law connects to freedom, this chapter is a revealing place to slow down and actually listen to what the text is doing. We also take on the question that ...

People in this episode

Host: Brandon Cannon

Topics covered

• justice
• Old Testament
• society
• law
• freedom
• Israel

Keywords

• Exodus 21
• justice
• Old Testament law
• society
• freedom
• Israel
• debt
• restitution

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Books & works: Exodus 21

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