1 00:00:02,680 --> 00:00:09,400 Speaker 1: Life Audio The Bible Study Podcast, Episode nine and eighty. Today, 2 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: The Bible Study Podcast continues the study of the Book 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 1: of Exodus with chapter twenty one. Welcome to the Bible 4 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: Study Podcast. I'm your host, Chris Kristensen. We're going to 5 00:00:26,880 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 1: continue on with more instructions given at Mount Sinai, But 6 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:35,440 Speaker 1: first a word from this sponsor. So Chapter twenty one 7 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: starts this way. These are the laws you are to 8 00:00:38,159 --> 00:00:42,640 Speaker 1: set before them Hebrew servants. If you buy a Hebrew servant, 9 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,960 Speaker 1: he is to serve you for six years, But in 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,040 Speaker 1: the seventh year he is to go free without paying anything. 11 00:00:48,560 --> 00:00:51,040 Speaker 1: If he comes alone, he is to go free alone. 12 00:00:51,400 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: But if he has a wife when he comes, she 13 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:56,520 Speaker 1: is to go with him. If his master gives him 14 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:59,640 Speaker 1: a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the 15 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: woman and her children shall belong to her master, and 16 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:07,240 Speaker 1: only the man shall go free. But if the servant declares, 17 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: I love my master and my wife and children, and 18 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,119 Speaker 1: do not want to go free, then his master must 19 00:01:12,200 --> 00:01:14,920 Speaker 1: take him before the judges. He shall take him to 20 00:01:14,959 --> 00:01:17,480 Speaker 1: the door or the doorpost, and pierce his ear with 21 00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: an all. Then he will be his servant for life. 22 00:01:20,800 --> 00:01:23,640 Speaker 1: If a man sells his daughter as a servant. She 23 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: is not to go free as male servants do. If 24 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,520 Speaker 1: she does not please the master, who has selected her 25 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,360 Speaker 1: for himself, he must let her be redeemed. He has 26 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,600 Speaker 1: no right to sell her to foreigners because he has 27 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,880 Speaker 1: broken faith with her. If he selects her for his son, 28 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:42,679 Speaker 1: he must grant her the rights of a daughter. If 29 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,559 Speaker 1: he marries another woman, he must not deprive the first 30 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: one of her food, clothing, and marital rights. If he 31 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,360 Speaker 1: does not provide her with these things, she is to 32 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: go free without any payment or money. So these are 33 00:01:57,960 --> 00:02:02,240 Speaker 1: part of a series of rule in the levitical law, 34 00:02:02,280 --> 00:02:05,760 Speaker 1: which we're getting to end this instruction here at Mount 35 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:10,520 Speaker 1: Sinai that's documented in Exodus. That really go back to 36 00:02:10,840 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 1: you were slaves in Egypt, and you're going to be 37 00:02:14,200 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: my people. I don't want you to be in debt 38 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:20,120 Speaker 1: as we'll get to, and I don't want you to 39 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:25,399 Speaker 1: be slaves forever. Now you can have indentured servants. That's 40 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:27,160 Speaker 1: what we would call it if you were a slave 41 00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:31,119 Speaker 1: for six years. Right, If you're a slave, basically you're 42 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,840 Speaker 1: saying I'm going to give you my service, probably because 43 00:02:34,840 --> 00:02:37,720 Speaker 1: I got into debt, but I'm not going to stay 44 00:02:37,720 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: a slave forever, and that's really what this is all about. 45 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: But you might have this situation where the guy realizes, hey, 46 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 1: I'm better off being a slave for the rest of 47 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:52,560 Speaker 1: my life being a servant for the rest of my life, 48 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 1: in which case there's a provision here that you can say, 49 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:59,120 Speaker 1: I'd rather do that. And then you notice you have 50 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:01,640 Speaker 1: to go before the judge. You have to have somebody 51 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: else say yes, we believe this person is really saying this, 52 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,079 Speaker 1: rather than you're just telling us they made this decision. 53 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: And then you mark them, you pierce the ear to 54 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:15,480 Speaker 1: make sure that everybody knows that this is a permanent servant. 55 00:03:16,919 --> 00:03:19,880 Speaker 1: And then these whole things with selling your daughter as 56 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:24,000 Speaker 1: a servant. All of these rights here are that you're 57 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,160 Speaker 1: not going to be sold off to a foreigner, that 58 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: if you're selected for your son, you have to be 59 00:03:29,200 --> 00:03:32,560 Speaker 1: treated like a daughter, treat these people, well, you were 60 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:37,840 Speaker 1: a slave before, and therefore we're going to have a 61 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: different set of rules for you. All of these rules, 62 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:45,360 Speaker 1: you notice, only do apply to fellow Hebrews. Slavery is 63 00:03:45,400 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: not illegal at this point in the Bible. We can 64 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 1: talk about whether it should be or not although usually 65 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:54,840 Speaker 1: slavery and this time period is not what we would 66 00:03:54,840 --> 00:03:57,680 Speaker 1: call chattel slavery. It's not slavery because you are a 67 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:02,200 Speaker 1: specific color or a specific nationale. It's slavery because you 68 00:04:02,320 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 1: got into debt, or it's slavery because your people lost 69 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,840 Speaker 1: to my people in a battle. So it's a little different. 70 00:04:07,880 --> 00:04:10,040 Speaker 1: But you know, still not a big fan of slavery. 71 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: But these rules were all to temperate within the Hebrew 72 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:21,000 Speaker 1: society personal injuries. Now, before I get into this, why 73 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:23,240 Speaker 1: do we have all these rules? Remember you're coming out 74 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:27,200 Speaker 1: of Egypt, where you were living under Egyptian rules. You 75 00:04:27,240 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 1: didn't have Hebrew laws because you weren't allowed to have laws, 76 00:04:31,880 --> 00:04:35,320 Speaker 1: you weren't in charge. And so you're basically taking this 77 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 1: people who were slaves and turning them into a nation. 78 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: Will nations have laws, they have rules that they live by. 79 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 1: And so we started with some basics like the Ten commandments. 80 00:04:46,320 --> 00:04:49,839 Speaker 1: You know, hey, just don't steal, just don't kill, don't 81 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: covet because it leads to other problems. You know, don't 82 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:56,480 Speaker 1: commit adultery, all those things. But then we're adding in 83 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:00,760 Speaker 1: more detail as our laws also add more detail, and 84 00:05:01,040 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: we get more and more laws because of precedent, because 85 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,479 Speaker 1: of well, the judges decided in this case to apply 86 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 1: this law in this way. They get a lot of 87 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:15,320 Speaker 1: laws here that God is specifically starting them with again 88 00:05:15,440 --> 00:05:18,640 Speaker 1: personal injuries. Anyone who strikes a person with a fatal 89 00:05:18,680 --> 00:05:21,480 Speaker 1: blow is to be put to death. However, if it 90 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 1: is not done intentionally, but God lets it happen, they 91 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: are to flee to a place I will designate. But 92 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:31,599 Speaker 1: if anyone schemes and kills someone deliberately, that person is 93 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:34,839 Speaker 1: to be taken from my altar and put to death. 94 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: Anyone who attacks their father or mother is to be 95 00:05:37,839 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 1: put to death. Anyone who kidnaps someone is to be 96 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:43,880 Speaker 1: put to death, whether the victim has been sold or 97 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 1: is still in the kidnapper's possession. Anyone who curses their 98 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:51,360 Speaker 1: father or mother is to be put to death. If 99 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,919 Speaker 1: a person quarrels with one person hits another person with 100 00:05:53,960 --> 00:05:57,040 Speaker 1: a stone or their fist, and the victim does not die, 101 00:05:57,200 --> 00:05:59,440 Speaker 1: but is confined to bed, the one who struck the 102 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:02,760 Speaker 1: blow will not be held liable if the other can 103 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,960 Speaker 1: get up and walk around outside with a staff. However, 104 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:09,080 Speaker 1: the guilty party must pay the injured person for any 105 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:12,800 Speaker 1: loss of time and see that the victim is completely healed. 106 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:15,840 Speaker 1: Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a 107 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: rod must be punished if the slave dies as a 108 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:21,680 Speaker 1: direct result, but they are not to be punished if 109 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: the slave recovers after a day or two, since the 110 00:06:24,440 --> 00:06:27,880 Speaker 1: slave is their property. If people are fighting and hit 111 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:30,960 Speaker 1: a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely, but there 112 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever 113 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:38,720 Speaker 1: the women's husband demands and the court allows. But if 114 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,479 Speaker 1: there is serious injury, you are to take life for life. 115 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot 116 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 1: for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise. 117 00:06:49,560 --> 00:06:52,400 Speaker 1: An owner who hits a male or female slave in 118 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: the eye and destroys it must let the slave go 119 00:06:55,720 --> 00:06:58,599 Speaker 1: to compensate for the eye, and an owner who knocks 120 00:06:58,640 --> 00:07:00,680 Speaker 1: out a tooth of a male or female male slave 121 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:05,040 Speaker 1: must let the slave go free to compensate for the tooth. 122 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: If a bull gore is a man or woman to death, 123 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: the bull is to be stoned to death, and its 124 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: meat must not be eaten, but the owner of the 125 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:16,440 Speaker 1: bull will not be held responsible. If, however, the bull 126 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: has had the habit of goring and the owner has 127 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:23,000 Speaker 1: been warned and he has not kept it panned up, 128 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,240 Speaker 1: and it kills a man or woman, the bull is 129 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:27,560 Speaker 1: to be stoned, and the owner also is to be 130 00:07:27,640 --> 00:07:30,680 Speaker 1: put to death. However, if payment is demanded, the owner 131 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: may redeem his life by the payment of whatever is demanded. 132 00:07:35,240 --> 00:07:38,320 Speaker 1: This law also applies if the bull gore is a 133 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:41,360 Speaker 1: son or daughter. If the bull gores a male or 134 00:07:41,360 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 1: female slave, the owner must pay thirty shekels of silver 135 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: to the master of the slave, and the bull is 136 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: to be stoned to death. If anyone uncovers a pit 137 00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: it digs one and fails to cover it, and an 138 00:07:54,480 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 1: ox or donkey falls into it, the one who opened 139 00:07:57,280 --> 00:07:59,680 Speaker 1: the pit must pay the owner for the loss and 140 00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:03,680 Speaker 1: take the dead animal in exchange. If anyone's bull injures 141 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,680 Speaker 1: someone else's bull and it dies, the two parties are 142 00:08:06,720 --> 00:08:09,160 Speaker 1: to sell the live one and divide both the money 143 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: and the dead animal equally. However, if it was known 144 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,200 Speaker 1: that the bull had a habit of going, yet the 145 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:17,760 Speaker 1: owner did not keep it penned up, the owner must 146 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: pay animal for animal and take the dead animal in exchange. 147 00:08:23,080 --> 00:08:25,600 Speaker 1: We have rules like this too. Isn't this amazing? I mean, 148 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,680 Speaker 1: these are really detailed. You got to think about all 149 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:32,320 Speaker 1: the different circumstances that might happen. So, first of all, 150 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:35,160 Speaker 1: that first one is really saying we've got different rules 151 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: for manslaughter versus murder. If you and I have a 152 00:08:39,120 --> 00:08:43,080 Speaker 1: fight and I throw a punch and you die, that 153 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,440 Speaker 1: is different from I decide that I'm going to kill 154 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: you now in this case, remember they are currently in Sinai. 155 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:56,120 Speaker 1: They have no buildings. The only building they're going to 156 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 1: have soon is a tabernacle, which is a tent. So 157 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:00,760 Speaker 1: they have only tents. So they don't have any prisons, 158 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,640 Speaker 1: and so a lot of these laws may seem to 159 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: us to be harsh as we go on here, but 160 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 1: they don't have a lot of options. It's not clear 161 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: what they would do with somebody. They're not going to 162 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: build a prison, and so a lot of these things 163 00:09:17,160 --> 00:09:20,120 Speaker 1: are going to be leading to death. This one says though, 164 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:25,320 Speaker 1: that when you get to the Promised Land, if you 165 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 1: flee to a place I designate, there will be cities 166 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,240 Speaker 1: that are cities of refuge, And if you can make 167 00:09:30,280 --> 00:09:33,880 Speaker 1: it to the city of refuge, then someone can't come 168 00:09:33,920 --> 00:09:36,400 Speaker 1: and kill you. But if you're not there and you've 169 00:09:36,480 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: killed someone's brother, they can kill you. So these rules 170 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:42,160 Speaker 1: will get a little more complicated when we get into 171 00:09:42,160 --> 00:09:45,160 Speaker 1: the Promised Land. All of these things are trying to 172 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: give some form of justice. What is fair? And so 173 00:09:50,200 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 1: when we see like an eye for an eye, a 174 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,040 Speaker 1: tooth for a tooth, what it's doing is it's trying 175 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:58,839 Speaker 1: to limit revenge. So if you knock up my tooth 176 00:09:58,920 --> 00:10:02,679 Speaker 1: and I kill you, I'm guilty of murder. Right, If 177 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:04,559 Speaker 1: you knock on my tooth, then I knock out your tooth, 178 00:10:04,640 --> 00:10:09,560 Speaker 1: it's saying, well, that's that's fair. So that's the kind 179 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: of thing that we're trying to do here. If you 180 00:10:11,240 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 1: attack father and mother put to death. Remember, honor your 181 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:16,920 Speaker 1: father and mother is a very important thing. So even 182 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 1: if you throw a punch at your father, here it's saying, 183 00:10:20,600 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 1: it's a serious thing. We don't want kidnappers. You can't 184 00:10:24,559 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 1: even curse your father and mother. That's a serious that 185 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:30,679 Speaker 1: would surprise us today. But that's how important that honor 186 00:10:30,760 --> 00:10:33,400 Speaker 1: your father and mother is. And then we start getting 187 00:10:33,400 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 1: into the details of Okay, what if I hit you 188 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,240 Speaker 1: with a stone but you recover, well, how recovered do 189 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:41,040 Speaker 1: you have to be well. If you can walk around 190 00:10:41,080 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: with a staff, okay, but you know I have to 191 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 1: pay you, and so all putting in all of this 192 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:49,920 Speaker 1: form of compensation here again we don't have laws. We 193 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,840 Speaker 1: need laws. Anyone who beats the male servant with a rod, okay, 194 00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:57,440 Speaker 1: you can do that. But if they die, then you're 195 00:10:57,440 --> 00:11:02,200 Speaker 1: going to be punished. If you knock out their tooth, 196 00:11:02,640 --> 00:11:05,439 Speaker 1: then you got to set them free. If you damage 197 00:11:05,480 --> 00:11:07,320 Speaker 1: their eye and they can't see anymore, you have to 198 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:12,160 Speaker 1: set them free. If you're fighting and a woman gives birth, 199 00:11:13,040 --> 00:11:16,280 Speaker 1: if there's no serious injury, you just with the husband 200 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:20,120 Speaker 1: demands and the courts allow. Again, patriarchal society. That is 201 00:11:20,160 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 1: the reality of this situation. And I thought it was 202 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:26,400 Speaker 1: interesting this whole thing with the bull. So if a 203 00:11:26,440 --> 00:11:28,880 Speaker 1: bull gore is a man or a woman, you put 204 00:11:28,920 --> 00:11:31,920 Speaker 1: that bull to death, but the owner isn't responsible. But 205 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: the owner knew that there was a risk. This is 206 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,240 Speaker 1: sort of where a lot of our legality comes from 207 00:11:38,280 --> 00:11:41,320 Speaker 1: in terms of if you knew that your car that 208 00:11:41,400 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 1: you were selling me was unsafe and I die in it, 209 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:47,480 Speaker 1: that's a different thing than if you didn't know it 210 00:11:47,559 --> 00:11:50,120 Speaker 1: was unsafe and I die in it, and that's the 211 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: same thing going on here with a bull. So some 212 00:11:52,840 --> 00:11:55,040 Speaker 1: of these things are very similar to what we have. 213 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:57,319 Speaker 1: Some of them, like cursing your father and mother being 214 00:11:57,320 --> 00:11:59,880 Speaker 1: put to death, are very different from what we have. 215 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:03,960 Speaker 1: If you uncover a pit and somebody falls into it 216 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:07,599 Speaker 1: and an animal falls into it, then you have to 217 00:12:07,640 --> 00:12:11,559 Speaker 1: pay for it. You left this hazard. Basically, if I 218 00:12:11,640 --> 00:12:13,800 Speaker 1: digging up potholes in front of my house and you 219 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 1: drive into it, I'm going to be held responsible if 220 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,720 Speaker 1: I didn't put out those signs that say, hey, don't 221 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: drive here, there's a pothole. It's similar sort of things. 222 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 1: And then again the same sort of thing with if 223 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:30,760 Speaker 1: my bull injures your bull, it's different if I didn't 224 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:32,840 Speaker 1: know that that was going to happen because my bull 225 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:37,679 Speaker 1: has never done this before, than if I did. There's 226 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 1: going to be a lot of these very prosaic rules 227 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:44,520 Speaker 1: that are set up because you need these prosaic rules. 228 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: I mean, you could have started with if somebody is injured, 229 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,520 Speaker 1: we're going to do things fairly and then let judges 230 00:12:51,559 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: figure it out. But it's easier to start from at 231 00:12:54,240 --> 00:12:57,320 Speaker 1: least a basic framework. And again they're being set up 232 00:12:57,320 --> 00:13:00,240 Speaker 1: as a nation. They need laws. We're going to be 233 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:03,640 Speaker 1: going through some of them here. With that, we're going 234 00:13:03,720 --> 00:13:06,439 Speaker 1: to end this episode of the Bible Study Podcast. If 235 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:08,719 Speaker 1: you have any questions, send an email to Chris two 236 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 1: x at gmail dot com, or, better yet, leave a 237 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: comment on this episode at the biblestudypodcast dot com. And 238 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: as always, thanks so much for listening. I want to 239 00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:32,360 Speaker 1: take just a second to thank the team at Life 240 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:35,600 Speaker 1: Audio for their partnership with us on this podcast. 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