Redeemed

This week we will study Exodus chapters 21 and 22.

Read 21:1-11
What is the subject of these verses?
Does this surprise you?
How long was a Hebrew person allowed to serve as a slave?
Could he or she get out of it before then?
How?
What is the Year of Jubilee? (Read Leviticus 25:1-24)

Read 21:12-17
What are 4 crimes that required the death penalty?
Why do you think these particular crimes did?

Read 21:18-36
What do you think about the "eye-for-an-eye" philosophy? Was it humane?

Read chapter 22
What does it mean in verse 29 to offer the "first-born of your sons"?
Read Exodus 13:12-16 for clarification.

Does any of this ever apply to us as gentiles in the 21st century?
Remember that whatever God did for His people literally in the Old Testament, He does for us spiritually now.

Write a paragraph to tell what chapters 21 and 22 mean to you.