Exodus 21-24 was definitely quite an instructive piece of literature. It was almost raw in its nature as a text or "book" but more of reading an excerpt from a piece of non-fiction most similar to an instruction manual of some sort that you get when you buy a dissembled bike or desk. Something like being enrolled in a police academy there was definite sense of a master-slave relationship in the air. It is like something never before seen in the Torah, these chapters showed a whole new YHWH. The YHWH who is feared like the school principal in an elementary school, not even mom and dad has come on so strong as to the dos and donts of living life. It seems as if YHWH was pushed to such a point where YHWH has no choice but intervene into the lives of his children, and set the rules for the playground or else. YHWH's previous roles of guidance, assistance, and help have been abandoned and promoted to the role of almost a dictatorial one. This is a special moment between YHWH and......
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