TZ-Exodus-21

TEEN ZONE

WEEKLY LESSONS FOR TEENS

BY PAUL DITORO

TZ-EX-21

[Read chapter 21]

This chapter contains legal provisions as an elaboration of the Ten Commandments. It deals with an individual's rights. This chapter may be regarded as the Bill of Rights for the Hebrew people. The outline is from Burton Coffman’s Commentary on Exodus.

1. If one were to buy a Hebrew slave, for how many years would he be bound to serve?

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2. What if he had a wife when he came into slavery?

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3. What if the slave did not want to leave his master and did not want his freedom?

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4. Could a man sell his own daughter into slavery?

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5. What was the penalty for killing a man?

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6. What offenses in this chapter brought the death penalty?

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7. If one man’s ox killed another ox, what was to be done with the two oxen?

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8. What is the penalty when men get into a fight and one man injures another to the extent that he is injured and cannot work?

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9. Was slavery abolished in the New Testament? (Philemon 10-17)

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