Exodus 21: You Die, and You Die, and You Die!

In this episode we start reading what’s commonly known as the Book of the Covenant. These “laws” seem really ancient to us because they ARE ancient. They are not commands for all people of all time. They are to a particular people at a particular time set in a specific narrative. If we don’t consider its context and its genre, we have very little chance of understanding its purpose in the Bible.