This post is part of my ongoing series of writing down my thoughts on the Bible passages I read each day. Some days I hope to have great insight that the Lord gives me, and many days, I will likely struggle through the text and not know what to write down based on what I read. My hope and prayer is that as I make this a habit, just as I did daily writing for so long, that I will improve on my ability to read and understand the passages I’m reading. Please keep in mind that many of these posts may be published late at night or with little time studying and simply be my first thoughts after reading. This is in no way a commentary that one should use to discern the Bible, but my own personal thoughts.
There are some laws as you read through these books of the law that seem crazy. You don’t understand all the reasoning behind them. Like in these chapters there’s a part about if two guys are fighting and one of their wives come up to help their husband by grabbing the other man’s private parts, her hand is to be cut off.
So it gets in-depth here. I don’t know if this was a cultural thing, or if it had some sort of significance, but it kind of feels like this is a very niche law. Like why would this ever happen? But, I suppose in case it ever did happen, they were covered as far as the law goes.
These chapters also have some laws that seem very far out but in a good way. Like they make you wonder if it would ever work to have something like that again. In chapter 24, there was a law that if a man was married, he should not go to war or have any other public duty. He was simply supposed to tend to his own home. This is obviously not the case anymore, and there’s no way that most men could take a year off of work, but it is an interesting concept.
Lastly, there are a lot of laws that make a ton of sense and are still used today. Some that this country was founded upon. It is amazing to think that these laws, which were made 4,000 years ago are still applicable today. Very few things do we have that have lasted this long.