Lesson 36 - Leviticus 24

[Music] Leviticus chapter 24 presents us with a somewhat diverse collection of ordinances and rules about various subjects and the first few verses deal with matters concerning the sanctuary idea home a that is for this era of Leviticus that mobile tent called the wilderness tabernacle and then later on it'll be the temple that's located in Jerusalem the last half of Leviticus 24 deals primarily with a crime of a very serious nature blasphemy and secondarily about justice in general now much of what we will read we've heard before in some cases the information is generally repetitive in other cases it adds additional information that's important now the sages and the rabbis I will tell you they struggled with this section of Leviticus and I'm going to show you the areas of disagreement and concern when we get to it so open your Bibles to Leviticus chapter 24 we're going to read it all page 138 if you have a complete Jewish Bible I don't I said to Moses order the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from crushed olives for the light keep the lamps burning always outside the curtain of the testimony and the tent of meeting Aaron is to arrange for the light to be kept burning always from evening until morning before Adonai this is to be a permanent regulation throughout all your generations he is always to keep an order the lamps on the pure menorah before I deny you were to take fine flour and use it to bake twelve loaves one gallon per loaf arrange them in two rows six in a row on the pure table before Adonai but frankincense with each row to be an offering made by fire to Adonai in place of the bread and as a reminder of it regularly every Shabbat he is to arrange them before Adonai they are from the people of Israel as a covenant forever they will belong to Aaron and his sons and they're to eat them in a holy place because for him they are of the offerings of a denies made by fire especially holy this is a permanent law there was a man who was the son of a woman of Israel and then an Egyptian father and he went out among the people of Israel and the son of a woman of Israel had a fight in the camp with a man of Israel in the course of which the son of the woman of Israel uttered the name in a curse so they brought him to Moses his mother's name was shall meet the daughter of debris of the tribe of Dan and they put him under guard until ad and I would tell them what to do and I don't I said to Moses take that man who cursed outside the camp have everyone who heard him lay their hands on his head and have the entire community stone him then tell the people of Israel whoever curses his God will bear the consequences of his sin and whoever blasphemes the name of Adam I must be put to death the entire community must stony the foreigner as well as the citizen is to be put to death if he blasphemes the name anyone who strikes another person and kills him must be put to death anyone who strikes an animal and kills it is to make restitution life for life if someone injures his neighbor what he did is to be done to him break for break I for eye tooth for tooth whatever injury he has caused the other person is to be rendered to him in return he who kills an animal as to make restitution but he who kills another person is to be put to death you were to apply the same standard of judgment to the foreigner as to the citizen because I'm a denier God so Moses spoke to the people of Israel and they took the man who had cursed outside of the camp and stoned him to death thus the people of Israel did as Adonai it ordered Moses now just to remind us verse one tells us that what we are reading is what you hope a communicated to most and also just to remind us almost to a fault we can replace every instance of the word Lord or name when it's referring to the divine every instance of the word God in our English translation with the word you Holvey here Yahweh the name of God why can we rightly do this because we're simply restoring the original by that substitution it's there I don't mean to drive this up into the ground but I keep finding more reasons day by day as to why it's so important to restore God's name to our scriptures at 99% of time literally 99% of the time when we see the words Lord or God in our Bibles in the Old Testament in the original the Hebrew was you Dave Ave yeah always how I pronounce it some pronounce it Yahweh this isn't conjecture it's not allegory it's not even reverse-engineering it's just fact we not only have the Masoretic text and hebrew dating to the eight hundreds ad we now have the Dead Sea Scrolls that most of the Old Testament books are among them and we have that for comparison and they date at least to the time of the birth of Christ and a century a century and a half earlier and in all cases it is very rare that we find the Hebrew terms from God or Lord used in reference to Yahweh rather his personal name is used more than six thousand times just as it used here to start off leviticus twenty four yet hopi instructs the israelite that they're to use clear pure olive oil for fueling the menorah this large golden lampstand it stands in the holy place of the sanctuary and i'm gonna show you some things that I think are very significant but are often lost in translation I want to remind you of a key verse in the New Testament which correlates the Torah with the Messiah Jesus Yeshua said this in John 5 46 for if you believed Moses you would believe me he wrote of me but if you did not believe his writings how will you believe my work so much of the Torah set of patterns types shadows that describes the coming and the purpose of the Messiah and here hidden in the second verse of Leviticus is a tiny piece to that puzzle we know that the menorah is associated with the Messiah as he is the light of the world and the book of Revelation in particular directly makes that connection for us we don't have to guess about it well the menorah requires something to be burned as a fuel to provide its light and that something is described as what what is it the burns of the menorah olive oil pure it says underline pure olive oil other things were available at that time regularly used to burn and to create light animal fat dried animal dung oil and sea creatures wax even petroleum that bubbled up through small fissures in the earth but you holy require that only olive oil could be used in the menorah and we find all throughout the Bible that a connection is made between the olive tree and who is real all throughout life eventually the olive tree will come to symbolize Israel in the Holy Scriptures there were many ways to process the olives to extract the oil usually they were pressed smashed smushed to squeeze that oil out but here in Leviticus we have an unusual Hebrew word to describe the required process to obtain the olive oil fuel when it was going to be used for the menorah the Hebrew verb is got these two feet and it means to beat it it must be beaten but olives have to be struck they have to be hit repeatedly they have to be beaten not pressed like it usually is now I'm sure the Hebrews had very little clue as to why this was necessary for the holy olive oil Rashi commented on the use of this word and he was himself a kind of a loss as to why the olives for the menorah had to be beaten instead of just crushed smashed it was a lot quicker and easier to just crush the olives with a typical Olive Press but we have with hindsight now the ability to understand the issue of the Messiah would be severely beaten struck hit partially over and over again for us but the Messiah wasn't crushed his bones would not be pulverized not even broken the olive oil process of the olive being rather than crushed and press for use in the menorah sets up a type and a pattern for us let me also take a moment to clear something up only rarely do English translations directly bring across the word menorah usually it's translated as lampstand or golden lampstand understand when you see the word lamps themed or golden lampstand used in the Bible this includes the New Testament by the way it's referring to the temple menorah the word is menorah recall this well-known saying of Jesus in revelation through revelation 2:5 remember therefore from where you have fallen and repent and do the deeds you did it first or else I am coming to you and I will remove your lampstand out of its place unless you repent if you have a complete Jewish Bible the word lampstand has correctly been replaced with the word menorah the importance is analogies of the work of Messiah are directly tied to sacred and to holy things like the temple menorah and that so we can see that connection and it's terrible when that connection is broken it dissolves the very thing we were meant to see now the olive tree is the symbol of Israel and the purest olive oil represents Yeshua the purest Israelite Yeshua embodied the heavenly ideal of Israel what Paul for lack of words called true Israel true Israel is the spiritual counterpart of the earthly and physical nation of Israel this is our reality of duality at play again and in a gia schewe that is the purest fuel that provides for the purest light or I think maybe better enlightenment for a dark world we as his disciples are to emulate him we are to be pure and clean fuel for that light as well we will never attain in these bodies the purity of our Savior but we are to strive for purity now in a few minutes I'm gonna show you another place where the Ministry of the Messiah gets woven into this 24th chapter of Leviticus now the next couple of verses also straight now some things about just how the menorah is to be tended to in the temple for instance the last few words of verse 2 are typically translated to as to cause the lamps to burn continually some virginal say versions will say to cause the lamp to burn always or cause the lamps to burn forever see this causes a problem because the very next verse verse 3 says the lamps are to burn from evening to morning which is quite different than always so what gives the Hebrew word that has been typically translated as continually or always is Tamid Tamid and it is used as an adjective or an adverb as it is here and it doesn't mean continually or always rather it means regularly in our case in this context the word daily probably is the best translation therefore the verse ought to read from but our best understanding in modern times to cause the lamps to burn daily now look at verse 3 it says the lamb shall burn from evening to morning then rather oddly it appears to add the word continually that is most Bibles say from evening to morning before the Lord continually if you think about that that doesn't make a whole lot of sense and how can it only be during the darkness the darkness hours and then also continually all at the same time I've even read commentaries saying this by Nora menorah burned night indeed because the Bible's supposedly says they ought to burn continually that's wrong and of course that is done to make it match the translation of the previous verse that is also translated as continually or some other word meaning that same thing again the Hebrew word is tamid which does not mean continually it means regularly so the problem is rather easily resolved and by the way the verse fully reads from evening to morning before you'll have a regularly that's how it actually rates literally now as one would imagine the menorah only burned during the hours of darkness and what great symbolism there isn't that the Messiah represented by the menorah that golden lampstand was consumed on earth for a very specific purpose to be fuel to put light into a dark place the world and when he comes back to rule he will not be fuel that is consumed he will be the king the rules over a place of light not a place of darkness and as we're told in Revelation upon the ending of the Millennial Kingdom and the replacement of the present earth in universe there will be no Sun there won't be any moon there'll be no need for lamps of any kind because your whole they were told he will be our light the way physical light is produced in our universe is by something being consumed as fuel that's just a basic fundamental of physics matter becomes turned into energy in our present universe light results from the conversion of matter to energy whether it's olive oil wood petroleum gasoline hydrogen that fuels the stars including our Sun while Yeshua was here physically the only way he could produce light was by his being consumed folks that's the only way we can produce light by our being consumed our lives have to be used and used up consumed for him so anyway we can produce light there's no cheap way to do it there's no way around it a conversion of matter to energy has to happen we can be a container full of purest olive oil one who holds Jesus in our heart until the fire is lit that one's not going to be consumed just going to sit there and used until we sprang into action then we create energy no light emits knowledge of the truth sitting around feeling warm and fuzzy and peaceful does not produce light your car doesn't produce motion just because there's gas in the tank matter of fact what happens to gas in a tank with a car that sits and sits and sits and citizens it becomes useless this eventually becomes something that you can't even run the car with anymore we have to use up our time our resources are lies for him otherwise we're just kidding ourselves and we're liable to be among those many and the Lord returns we run out to meet him we greet him with Lord Lord and he says I never knew you oh I don't want to hear that let me state it clearly it's not our consumption for him that brings us salvation rather an assumption is a result of our understanding of our salvation and then allowing to take its natural course in our lives it's our faith in Him that brings us the salvation but the salvation is for a purpose it's not just to fill your tank and then let it sit there well after instructions for the menorah verses 5 through 9 deal with what is typically called the showbread now these are 12 very large loaves and by the way this is an accurate representation very large loaves of bread leavened bread by the way that sits on a table inside the holy place and they're placed in two rows and as we know the approximate dimensions of the table which is a little over two feet square we know that the loaves had to be stacked and be piled up on top of one another each loaf required about two and a quarter liters about five pints of semolina flour each loaf would have weighed about four pounds now lay out bread or other food and a temple of the Gods was usual and customary in Middle Eastern society that day Egypt - but here among the Hebrews God makes it clear the foods not for him this food is to wind up going to the priests the symbolism of the two rows or stacks of showbread coincided with the two large stones that were part of the high priests ephod and upon these two stones were written the twelve names the twelve tribes of Israel six names on each stone but the fact that the twelve are divided into two groups and that there are two stones with the twelve names of Israel dividing divided between the two tells me that the symbolism then takes one more step that in the near future from the day of the giving of the law Sinai Israel would become divided into two parts into two houses of course neither Moses nor the Israelites would have ever guessed such a thing was gonna happen now verse seven needs a little bit of straightening out normally the English translations say that frankincense was to be placed upon the loaves of children so the picture we get is that a fragrant and super expensive spice frankincense is to get sprinkled on top of each loaf of showbread and frankincense is this is it it is very fragrant for sure now how well it tastes I'm not so sure in fact the Hebrew preposition all which is usually translated upon making the frankincense put upon that sugar that's not correct all does not mean a pawn it means towards next to beside near together with so what occurred was that the frankincense was put into two infants burners beside the table of showbread and then burned up as an incense that's how all was done now we only get a couple of offhanded comments of references to the showbread as used in the temple in the New Testament the most notable one being when Jesus was defending the use of his healing power on Shabbat on Sabbath in Matthew 12 1 it says at that time Jesus went on the sabbath through the grain fields and the disciples became hungry and they began to pick the heads of the grain and eat but when the Pharisees saw it they said to him behold your disciples do what's not lawful to do on the Sabbath but he said to them have you not read what David did but he became hungry in his compare how he entered into the house of God and they ate the consecrated bread eating show bread which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him but for the priests alone so this practice of displaying the showbread and the temple and attesting that it was only meant for eating by the priests Yeshua fully confirmed in the New Testament by admitting oh yeah David was technically breaking the law by doing that no doubt his point was that sages and rabbis had no problem with David helping himself to that shole bread hey this is David you do whatever he wants it was understood that when life and well-being came into play that sometimes it has to be weighed against the strictest interpretation of the law see Yeshua was employing the well-known rabbinic method of debate called Calvo Mayer the weighing of light versus heavy so he's basically saying hey if you had no problem with David feeding men who were hungry using the sacred bread what's your problem with me feeding this hungry bunch of people with a bunch of weed out in the field just cuz it's salmon the showbread was replaced once per week on each new Shabbat and then the priest would get what was removed they got week old bread yup now verse 10 begins to deal with the law against blasphemy some other serious crimes I noted on a number of occasions that it was a mixed multitude they came up out of Egypt and here we are given one example of a Hebrew woman who married an Egyptian man and then produced this so-called mixed son that we can assume that there were thousands and thousands of families of some type of mix similar to this one who had followed Israel out of Egypt the point is made that this half Israelite if you would got into a fight with a full-blooded Israelite and during the heat of battle this half Egyptian pronounce the name that is the Shem of God which is Jehovah Yahweh in blasphemy and in modern-day language he said a swear word he used God's name in vain use God's name improperly Exodus 22 27 cites the law concerning the careless use of God's name Exodus 20 says this you shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain for the Lord will not leave him unpunished it takes his name in vain I said 22:27 I'm in 21st SEP here we see the punishment for such an act death the context of this whole affair it's kind of like presenting a case before Judge and affair this is a fairly detailed example of a crime that's given here and then the penalty is prescribed once is convicted now it's interesting that it is made clear that the tribe this man came from at least his mother's tribe was the tribe of Dan now Dan would not too long after ending the promised land pull away from all the other tribes of Israel and form their own cult the city of Dan in northern Israel far northern region became the center of their cult they built a temple and an altar there they practiced all sorts of abominable repeating rituals matter of fact you can visit that place to this day so Dan would gain this reputation as kind of one of the bad boys among the Israelites and we're gonna find a number of cases where it specifically mentioned that someone from the tribe of Dan did something wrong and then the punishments described and so Dan was kind of used at times as an object lesson now I mentioned earlier that we find some hidden references to the Messiah in this chapter I've demonstrated one and here we find another one but we really only see it when we examine it in Hebrew verse 11 says that the son of the Israelite woman pronounced or blaspheme depending on your Bible version the name of God the Hebrew word there used is niqab niqab and early in our lesson we saw that the olives from which the holy olive oil was extracted to fuel a menorah could not be crushed it had to be and here we find that the Hebrew word and a cob is used to describe the nature of the capital crime of taking God's name in vain literally the cob means to pierce and it is usually translated as to blaspheme Sona Cobb means to pierce in the sense of causing a piercing wound cause harm we find then that in cursing by using the over his name in vain the half Israelite half Egyptian had pierced God's name just as we found earlier that the olives used to provide the fuel for the enlightenment of the gods of the world they had to be beaten so if there are two dramatic characteristics often spoken in the New Testament to describe price passion they are beaten and pierced beaten and pierced and indeed Moses spoke much of the Messiah Christ Himself said he did and we could see it much clearer if we would only examine the Torah in all of its Jewishness rather than to declare its supposed faultiness and irrelevance to us well verse 14 tells us that this blasphemer was to be taken outside of the camp and executed and we discussed this term outside the camp before it literally means to be taken away from where the Israelites put up their tents outside the camp now part of the reason that you take a condemned person outside of the camp is to avoid the ritual uncleanness brought about by the presence of something that that person is about to become a corpse but even more it was both commanded and traditional to only allow an execution outside of the camp now we're not going to get into it right now but the fact that Jesus had to be executed outside the camp according to Jewish law and that we're told in Hebrews that he was executed outside the camp gives us a clue to where he was probably crucified and further that almost certainly the traditional places that most Christian pilgrims to Jerusalem visit as the site of Calvary couldn't have been it just couldn't have been it because all of those sites or well if inside the camp boundaries if you would of the City of Jerusalem in those days verse 14 also tells us that this criminal was to be stoned to death by the whole community stoning you see the symbolic of rejection of the person by the community as a whole it's an acknowledgment that this behavior is sinful the laying on of hands before he is stoned is very interesting it does not mean that the citizens of Israel grabbed him and roughed him up on the way it was stony rather it symbolized symbolizes a very similar act as a worshipper who brings an animal to the priests for sacrifice then he lays his hands on the head of that sacrificial animal and when an animal is to be sacrificed by means of the worshiper laying his hands on the head of the animal the ownership and the authority over that animal is transferred to God the worshipper is also on a certain way transferring his sins from him or herself to that animal whose blood is then shed as a substitutionary atonement for the worshiper who deserves it now we're told that a specific group of people is commanded to be the ones who lay their hands on the criminal those who heard him speak the blasphemy or to do it those who hurt many people would have watched this physical altercation occur but many more would have heard the man shout out that blasphemy by Bible standards one that hears is at least as good as one who has a witness sees this is a very important God principle I think by the community of witnesses now collectively laying their hands on this criminal they were pronouncing that they were in agreement of the judgment that's been placed on this person and that his blood was on his own head now this notion of his blood is on his own head carried a little different meaning that what Gentiles typically think when we hear those words our thought is usually that it means well it was your fault you knew better but you did it anyway so you're just getting what comes to what I'll come to you that's not what the Hebrews thought but now follow me on this because I think it adds another interesting piece to the puzzle that is the ancient Hebrew society that forms the context of the entire Holy Scriptures when an animal was to be sacrificed the guilt of the worshiper was symbolically transferred to the antibody by the worshiper laying his hands on the head of that amp and then when the animal's blood was shed when it was ritually killed then that worshipper sins were atoned for because the animal's life became a legal substitute for the worshipers life that is the worshiper should rightfully experience death as the wages for his sin he should have paid for his own sin with his own life his own blood instead an innocent animal died a substitutionary death in the worshipers place and this was not only acceptable to God the system of doing that was established by God see this is the entire basis of God's justice system it's the entire basis for messiahs death on the cross what it was all about if we say as does the majority of the church that with the advent of Christ the law was done away with and since the sacrificial system based on atonement and substitution was at the center of the law and Jesus death as a substitutionary atonement for us would have today no context or meaning the thought is the Christ didn't only pay for the curses of breaking the law he bashed the law well if that's true then he not only paid for sin he abolished sin because as Paul said in Romans four or five what the law brings is punishment but if there was no law there would be no violation thus the modern church doctrine that Christ abolish the law means there can't be any more violations there's no more sin hallelujah really thus the notion that Christ pays for our sins becomes nonsense since because according to that doctrine there's no more law but no more sin so what's all this about there's no more sins that need to be paid for there's no more I mean if it's a circular argument that makes no sense obviously on its face this isn't what the Bible Old Testament knew communicates to us all correct since there is still sin even among hardened believers but it's self-evident that the law remains intact that was concerns atonement for a criminal act by the executioner's laying their hands on the criminal instead of on an animal getting that difference already laying up hands is on the criminals head not on some animals head then the guilt of the criminal is his own and he that condemned man can't transfer his guilt to some sacrificial animal rather as the final act of his existence this criminal would now die for his own sins further it was the Hebrew belief that by being executed the criminal indeed paid the price for his sins by his own blood and therefore his sin in some way was atoned for now exactly what this amounted to is just not clear since life after death was a very fuzzy concept for the Israelites and since there was no concept of dying and going to heaven until after you schewe came it's hard to know if the idea in their minds was that this criminal was actually forgiven for his trespasses by means of shedding his own blood or just what they meant if they thought it meant he was forgiven then they were wrong being executed was not an act that led to forgiveness it was an act that led to his permanent separation from God's community of believers it was a punishment well after the example of this particular criminal the blasphemer is given God says and this is what will happen to anyone who was part of Israel citizens or foreigners anyone who blasphemes God's name will be stoned or more literally anyone who pierces God's name will be killed now no please just how serious it is to use God's name improperly also note that in the New Testament we get the spiritual counterpart to the physical earthly act of blasphemy in Luke 12:10 and everyone who will speak a word against the Son of man it shall be forgiven him but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven him in leviticus there was neither earthly forgiveness nor was there substitutionary atonement available for anyone who blasphemes the name of God he loses his earthly life he's executed and Luke there is no forgiveness no substitutionary atonement available that is you can't depend on the blood of Christ for someone who blasphemes the Holy Spirit in modern times he might not be executed by a court of law he might not lose his physical life but he does lose his eternal life do you want to know what blaspheming is yeah I've heard this all over the map and in sermons all my life if you want to know read Leviticus the New Testament expect you to know what blaspheming is it wasn't a new term invented in the New Testament this is part of Hebrew society blaspheming the Holy Spirit is to misrepresent him it's to speak against him it is to use his name or his characteristics improperly it's to dirty his reputation that's blaspheming the Holy Spirit to claim that the Holy Spirit has instructed you to do something but you know full well for your just being very careless with your words but he is not that's blaspheming the Holy Spirit to renounce the deity of Yeshua is the blaspheme the Holy Spirit of God because trust in Messiah is the prerequisite even receiving the rococo - Holy Spirit besides one of the names of God is ruach ha'qodesh Holy Spirit well the next in verse 17 the penalty for murder is reiterated and it is linked to the trespass of blasphemy by being the next thing discussed because death to the violator is also prescribed but note again with our Hebrew word and the cob meaning to pierce that what's being illustrated here is that there is no more violent crime that a man can commit spiritually against you home a then to blaspheme his holy name just as there is no more violent crime a man commits physically against humanity than to murder a fellow human being in fact by using the term Pierce in the cob the scripture is saying that blaspheming is the spiritual equivalent of attempting to murder God and I don't find any indication that this crime has been abolished for modern day believers note as well that this goes for Horner's as well as for natural-born Israelites the beginning in verse 17 the subject changes and we're told that unlike the standard practice of some cultures in the Middle East of that era the Hebrews are not to take human life in exchange for the life of a beast in other words no matter what the circumstance the killing of somebody's animal does not warrant the death penalty to the human criminal and what this verse is kind of easing us into is what scholars have called in latin lex talionis the law of retaliation now this is the area I told you up front Leviticus 24 that the rabbi's and sages and Christian scholars have really struggled with and have very sharp differences of opinion and we find that a kind of retaliation when done lawfully is indeed considered God's justice in this chapter and this principle is stated in verses 19 and 20 this is where we get that statement an eye for an eye a tooth for tooth yet it is a different kind of retaliation than was standard for that time and centuries later even in the time of Rome which operated on the principle of Lex talionis this camp here a little while since time immemorial Hebrew many Hebrew sages at least have insisted that the intent of the words of verses 19 through 20 were not but if a man fractured another man's arm the perpetrator then should go back pulled that guy down and have his arm fracture nor that if a man knocked a tooth out of another man's head that the one who did it should have his own tooth knocked out and their possession their position certainly seems validated by the from the lips of Yeshua of Nazareth rather this was a call for proportional punishment that the punishment should never be greater than the crime in fact there is no evidence that even if God had intended that saying that the same physical damage exactly the same physical damage done by an assailant how to be done back to him the Hebrews ever at any time actually did it Mike some have done it and a fit of rage kind of vigilante style oh I have no doubt that that occurred rather particularly as concerned harm to animals and often as concerned men compensation was the preferred method of retaliation mutilation as a punishment was abnormal in the Hebrew system yet apparently on rare occasions it did happen in fact in Deuteronomy 25 we find a specific case of a requirement for a woman to have her hand removed for grabbing the genitals of a man who was fighting with her husbands that remember that in another case that appears in the Talmud I read where there was a discussion about whether a criminal should have his eye plucked out for his crime and the argument centered on the fact that the criminal was already missing one eye so if they took his other eye it would render him totally blind and the resulting total blindness would have been a terrible inequitable punishment for that crime he'd committed and we're gonna find other discussions in the Bible and dozens and various Jewish documents about this difficult subject now no dot no doubt some of the debates and discussions among the sages were purely hypothetical but mostly they were real cases that were brought before them but with rarest exception monetary compensation of some kind was always preferred over physical punishment and physical mutilation was regarded with disgust in the end the sages and the rabbis and most Christian scholars could agree on one point that equality and proportionality was the issue in our case of Leviticus 24 meaning it's not just the issue of the crime versus the equitable penalty but also that the nationality of the criminal can't be cause for having a different standard a foreigner can't be treated one way and a citizen immaterial and Israelite treated in another way over and over in the Torah like in verse 22 it is stated that whether Israelite or foreigner thou shalt be one law for all that shoots holes in the common Christian doctrine that there's one set of rules for Jews another set for Gentiles no the rule is there's one set for all but there should also be left no doubt that God demands an equitable price to be paid for criminal activity our modern sensibilities especially in the West are a little bit offended when we're told that long jail terms capital punishment even very heavy fines are retribution they're not justice but in fact it's hard to argue otherwise we just don't like the sound of the word retribution retribution means tit for tat it's just that retribution outside of the enshrined godly justice system is essentially vigilantism while retribution inside of it when properly conducted and applied is equitable justice and that certainly seems to be the lord's viewpoint as expressed literally in the scriptures as well nowhere even in the New Testament is it said that a price is not to be paid for criminal activity but the definition of what a criminal act is and the price that's to be paid is set according to the principles behind the laws and ordinances set down by God in the Torah and never art to be applied willy-nilly nor without the governing tribal or 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