Questions tagged [law]
The legal codes and specific laws of the Bible.
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Why did Jesus define faith as a matter of the law? Matthew 23:23
In Matthew 23:23 Jesus places justice, mercy, tithing, and faith (πίστις) all within the category of the law (νόμος). Of these four I am specifically asking why Jesus included πίστις as a matter of ...
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Structure of Solomon's temple: religious laws for buildings?
1 Kings 6:6 reports:
The lowest story was five cubits broad, the middle one was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad. For around the outside of the house he made offsets on the wall ...
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Can Paul’s hermeneutic re: Mosaic law in 1 Corinthians 9:9 be extended? Specifically re: Deuteronomy 22:6-7?
Paul makes an allegorical interpretation of Mosaic law of Deuteronomy 25:4:
1 Corinthians 9: 8-10 NIV
8 Do I say this merely on human authority? Doesn’t the Law say the same thing? 9 For it is ...
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Did the Israelites not violate the Sabbath in Numbers 31:24?
After engaging in a battle with the Midianites Moses instructs the the Israelites to wash their clothes and purify themselves on the seventh day.The Seventh day usually was the Sabbath day which ...
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Is curling hair in general a sin?
According to the LXX, Leviticus 19:27 states:
You will not make curled hair from the hair of your head, nor shall you disfigure the appearance of your beard.
The Greek word for curl is σισόην which ...
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Does the "Urim and Thummim " decide who is a real priest just by a "yes" and "no" lot , in Ezra 2:63, or is it more complicated than this?
These searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean. The governor ordered them not to eat any of the most sacred food until there ...
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What does Jesus mean by "Moses seat" and why does he tell the people to do as they say?
In Matthew 23:1-3, Jesus tells the people that the scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' seat and he tells them to do what they say. What does Jesus mean by Moses' seat? And why does he tell the people ...
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Did the Lord break His law by commanding Hosea to accept his adulterous wife?
Leviticus 20:10 NIV
“‘If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife—with the wife of his neighbor—both the adulterer and the adulteress are to be put to death.
Hosea 3:1 NIV
The Lord said to me,...
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Was Stoning Really the Punishment for Adultery (John 8:5)?
John 8:5 - "Now in the law, Moses commanded us to stone such women. So
what do you say?”
It turns out that the Law of Moses does not specify stoning as the punishment for adultery as far as I ...
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Does offering a firstborn male child to God strip him of the sovereignty and thus inheritance of land?
My question refers to the totality of biblical domain as I suspect this rule/law was in effect even before Abraham. If it indeed existed it would be a corollary of to the rule of the first born ...
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Why does Paul say the law came after 430 years in Galatians 3:17?
Galatians 3:17 NET
What I am saying is this: The law that came 430 years later does not cancel a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to invalidate the promise.
But its clear the law was ...
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Jeremiah 19:9 - Did God make Israel eat their own children?
In the Hebrew Bible it is usually understood that God is against killing and sacrificing children. He hates that and there are His laws that are against it but why would God make Israel eat their own ...
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What is the meaning of the word translated as "steal" in the commandment "thou shalt not steal"? (Exodus 20:15)
This question is prompted by a question in which "software piracy" and copyright issues come up. (See: What's Christians take on pirating authors books, software, movies etc?)
Some suppose ...
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What is the reconciliation of Romans 3:31 and Ephesians 2:15?
Is it maybe a different meaning of "abolish (katargeo)" or a different meaning of "law?" Because they seem somewhat contradictory.
Do we then make void [καταργοῦμεν] the law ...
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Did the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai occur on Shavuot?
by Saber Truth Tiger
In Exodus chapters 19 and 20 we read of the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai. Many believe this momentous event occurred during the first week of Sivan, the third month in the ...
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Galatians 3:23 Guarded in protective custody or held captive as prisoners under the law? Translation of ἐφρουρούμεθα συγκλειόμενοι
The old versions show a positive view of the law in Gal 3:23 showing it as guardian keeping in protective custody, but some new versions show the picture of a jailer or kidnapper by using the words ...
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Modern Scholar's view that the law of Moses was not given by God? [closed]
I need some overview of Martinus de Boer's views about the law of Moses and especially need to know if there are more scholars within the last few centuries who openly and clearly believe that the ...
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Discrepancy in Numbers 33:31 and Deuteronomy 10:6
In Deuteronomy 10:6, Moses recounts the journey of Israel as follows:
(Now the children of Israel journeyed from the wells of Bene Jaakan to
Moserah, where Aaron died, and where he was buried; and ...
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Is Hebrews 10:28 talking about the past or present
I read a few translations of Hebrews 10:28, some translate as present perfect, and some translate as past.
A man who has gone against the law of Moses is put to death without pity on the word of two ...
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How best to understand the NLT translation of νόμος in Romans 8:2?
Romans 8:2 NLT
For the power of the life-giving Spirit has freed you through Christ Jesus from the power of sin that leads to death.
KJV Romans 8 : 2
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ ...
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Do the ten commandments cascade from the greatest to the least in Exodus 20:1-17?
In Exodus 20:1-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21 the commandments are listed in a more or less similar way.Was thinking whether there are listed this way so as to potray a cascading pattern from the greatest ...
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What does Paul mean by 'one word' in Galatians 5:14?
Galatians 5:14 KJV
14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
What does one word mean in the above text?
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Is the Law eternal?
I was having a conversation with an orthodox Jew over on Code Golf SE on whether Christians still need to follow the Law or not. After bringing up a few verses on the subject, he brought up Psalm 119:...
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Where in the Protestant Bible does it say/explain that Christians are no Longer Binded under the Ceremonial Laws? [closed]
Despite months of research, I am unable to find Biblical evidence that Christians are no longer binded to the ceremonial law with the exception of the sacrificial system as Jesus Christ was the ...
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Is the trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin too illegal to be true?
The story that we have in the gospels of Mark and Matthew (Mark 14:53-65; Matthew 26:57-68) of the Trial of Jesus before the Sanhedrin seems to contradict many passages in the Mishna in the tractate ...
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Dropped articles for νόμος in Galatians 3
Paul uses the word νόμος 14 times in Galatians 3:
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ἐξ ἔργων νόμου
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ἐξ ἔργων νόμου
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ἐξ ἔργων νόμου ... τοῦ νόμου
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ἐν νόμῳ
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ὁ δὲ νόμος
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τοῦ νόμου
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Was Paul tacitly referring to Moses as an Angel worshipper in Colossions 2:16-18?
KJV Colossians 2:16-18
16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but ...
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Was Christ reiterating the death sentence in Mark 7:9-10?
Mark 7:9-10 NLT
Then he said, "You reject God's laws in order to hold on to your own traditions.10 For instance, Moses gave you this law from God: 'Honor your father and mother,' and 'Anyone who ...
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What did Paul mean when he said 'I Have Done Nothing against the Customs of our Fathers?" Acts 28:17
The Book of Acts relates that when Paul was brought to Rome:
After three days he called together the local leaders of the Jews; and
when they had gathered, he said to them, “Brethren, though I had ...
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Why did God prohibit wearing of garments of different materials in Leviticus 19:19?
Leviticus 19:19 ESV
You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your cattle breed with a different kind. You shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor shall you wear a garment of cloth ...
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Why the emphasis of unblemished offerings only in Numbers 28:31 [closed]
After reminding Israel of the offerings they had to do on a daily, monthly, and annual basis in Numbers 28, it's only in verse 31 that the author mentions the quality of offerings needed:
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Why wasn’t Ahab the subject of the lying spirit?
“And the Lord said, ‘Who will entice Ahab the king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramoth-gilead?’ And one said one thing, and another said another.”
2 Chronicles 18:19
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In Leviticus 16 was there a sign that atonement had been successful or not?
In this chapter of the day of atonement we are only told about the process of how Aaron should go about perfoming this ritual for himself and the Israelites
Leviticus 16:11 NASB
“Then Aaron shall ...
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Were Jesus' companions on the Cross "thieves" or followers of Barabbas? (Mark 15:7, Luke 23:19)
Both Luke and Mark describe Barabbas as having been imprisoned for insurrection and murder:
Luke 23:19 - (Barab′bas), a man who had been thrown into prison for an
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Cursing the fig tree [closed]
Did Jesus violate the Golden Rule (Matthew 7:12), when he destroyed the possibility... that the fig tree could ever feed the hungry? (Mark 11:14)
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Acts 21 vs. Galatians and Corinthians. Did Paul live according to the Jewish Law? [duplicate]
Acts 21 seems to show Paul participating in a Temple ritual to demonstrate that he himself lived "in obedience to the law" and that there was no truth in reports that he told Jewish ...
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Are the Ten Commandments directed toward a masculine audience?
This may be a semi-niche question, but I recently came across the HuffPost article "The Marginalization of Women: A Biblical Value We Don't Like to Talk About" which makes a polemic argument ...
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How were the the duties of the Levites intergrated during the stationary Temple?
When the first mobile tabernacle was built three divisions of the Levites namely Kohathites,Gershonites and Merarites were allocated different duties.Their duties entailed carrying the mobile ...
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In case of an unsolved murder in Deuteronomy 21:3-4 why was the heifer taken to an unplowed or unsown valley?
Deuteronomy 21:3
And it shall be that the city which is nearest to the person killed, that is, that the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd that has not been worked [b]and has not ...
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How do we reconcile the kings law Deuteronomy 17:14-20 with 2 Samuel 12:8?
The two texts:
“When you come to the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and
possess it and dwell in it, and say, ‘I will set a king over me like
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If a master provides a slave with a wife, is there no way for them to ever go free together?
Exodus 21:1-6 (NIV): If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free, without paying anything. If he comes alone, he is to go free alone; but ...
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Exodus 21:1~22:27 Interpreting it as what kind of law?
From Exodus 21:1~22:27, God gives laws that start with: "If" someone does something undesirable (and all these laws start with an undesirable scenario)... What kind of law would you call ...
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Romans 6:14 - What did Paul mean "..for ye are not under the law, but under grace."?
In Romans 6:14b
What did Paul mean "..for ye are not under the law, but under grace."?
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Does Proverbs 26:18-19 condemn tricking people for a joke?
Proverbs 26:18-19 reads (NKJV, emphasis mine):
Like a madman who throws firebrands, arrows, and death,
Is the man who deceives his neighbor, And says, "I was only joking!"
Does this ...
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What happens when a feast day of the Jews falls on the weekly Sabbath?
I was told that under the modern Jewish calendar a feast day cannot fall on a weekly Sabbath. Was it this way in ancient Israel? In ancient Israel could a feast day fall on the weekly Sabbath? It ...
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Why did Peter dedicate his first book to those who are 'strangers'? (1Peter1.1) Was Peter different to the other apostles, and aware of it?
Does the linguistic trope 'strangers' hold implications regarding inner nature of certain biblical characters? If Jesus blessed Peter could he have opened Peter's eyes to his (base) nature in need of ...
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Why add a fifth when one eats the holy thing(Terumah) unintentionally in Leviticus 22:14?
KJV Leviticus 22 : 14
And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.
I found the above text ...
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Does Romans 6:7 suggest that a person is acquitted from their sin at death?
I understand that the word translated into English as "died" in Romans 6:7 comes from the Greek 'apothanōn' and the word translated as “freed” is from the Greek ‘dedikaiwtai’. I also ...
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Did Jesus command the former invalid to do something unlawful at John 5:8? [duplicate]
John 5:8-10 says
"8 Then Jesus told him, “Get up, pick up your mat, and walk.” 9
Immediately the man was made well, and he picked up his mat and began
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Why is the date of Pentecost calculated similar to the Saddusaical method?
From my (limited) understanding Christians are an offshoot of the Pharisaic traditions.
As explained in The Jewish Babylonian Talmud (and many other places..),
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