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Let’s Practice…

1. One of God’s first tests of obedience in the wilderness was the simple matter of gathering manna on the
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2. How many Israelites left Egypt and needed food and water in the wilderness?

3. What was Israel’s response to God’s appearance on Mount Sinai?

4. What are the three principles Israel learned in preparing Israel for a relationship with him?

5. When the blood of the covenant was splashed on the people, they said, _____________________

6. What was the maximum time a “slave” might have to pay his debt?

7. How do people without God’s written law understand right from wrong?

8. If a pregnant woman is struck and her child dies, what is the penalty?

9. How is property theft made right?

10. How much interest could be charged on loaning personal funds?

Let’s get Personal…

A variety of law codes used by other nations about the same time as the Exodus laws have been discovered.
The Code of Ur-nammu is the first law code known in history. It contained twenty-nine laws and was from
Ur. Others include the Code of Eshnunna with sixty-one laws (Baghdad around 2000 B.C.), the Code of
Hammurabi with 282 laws (Babylon around 1750 B.C.), and the Hittite Law Code with one hundred laws
(around 1500 B.C.). A few of these codes were used in courts to administer justice, but the concepts were
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valuable for tradition, public opinion, and common sense.

57 Hamilton, Handbook, 201f.
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