Sermon Tone Analysis

Ki Tetze | כי תצא | "When you go forth "

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TORAH

| Female Captives

The soldier who wishes to marry a female war captive must consider her feelings and not treat her as a slave.

| The Right of the Firstborn

The rights of the firstborn cannot be overridden by extraneous factors.

| Rebellious Children

The punishment of a persistent insubordinate son must be death.

| Miscellaneous Laws

The body of an executed criminal must be treated with respect (21:22-23; cf. ; ).

Things that are lost must be returned back to their owner (22:1-3).

A neighbor in need must not be ignored (22:4).

Confusing or swapping gender roles is detestable to God (22:5).

Not capturing a mother bird along with her young will prolong your life (22:6-7).

A person can be held liable for a person’s death by not taking preventative measures (22:8).

Certain combinations of seeds, work animals and fabrics are forbidden but twisting together tzitzit is not (22:9-12).

| Laws concerning Sexual Relations

Slander against a virgin in Israel should be treated as defamation of character and punished by flogging the husband, a fine at $46,000.00 to the father and looses the right to divorce her (22:13-19).

Lying about being a virgin should be treated as a capital crime and subject to the death penalty at the front door of her father’s house to express communal disapproval of the father who failed to raise a chase daughter (22:20-21).

Adulterers, the man and the woman involved, should be punished by death so that Israel will be a land of moral righteousness (22:22).

Pre-marital sex by an engaged person to someone other than their planned spouse should be treated as a capital crime and subject to the death penalty so that Israel will be a land of moral righteousness (22:23-24).

Rape of an engaged woman should be treated as a capital crime and subject to the death penalty so that Israel will be a land of moral righteousness (22:25-27).

Intercourse with an unengaged virgin should be treated as a ticketed misdemeanor of 50 pieces of silver (22:28-29).

| Exclusions and Inclusions in the Assembly

A community ban must be put on those who practice incest (23:1).

A community ban must be put on men who voluntarily practice emasculation (23:2).

A community ban must be put on children born out of wedlock (23:3).

A community ban must be put on hostile foreigners (23:4-9).

A temporary ban, isolation and quarantine, must be put on any person with a bodily or ritual impurity during war (23:10-15).

Extradition of foreign slaves seeking refuge is a toxic element that destroys civil flourishing (23:16-17).

Prostitution is a toxic element that destroys civil flourishing (23:18-19).

Usury is a toxic element that destroys civil flourishing (23:20-21).

Promise breaking is a toxic element that destroys civil flourishing (23:22-24).

Greed is a toxic element that destroys civil flourishing (23:25-26).

| Laws concerning Marriage and Divorce

| Laws concerning Marriage and Divorce

| Miscellaneous Laws

| Levirate Marriage

| Various Commands

The one who does not care for the weak and vulnerable preserve the memory of those who preyed upon the weak and vulnerable (25:17-19).

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