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Eye for an eye. " An eye for an eye " ( Biblical Hebrew: עַיִן תַּחַת עַיִן, ʿayīn taḥaṯ ʿayīn) [a] is a commandment found in the Book of Exodus 21:23–27 expressing the principle of reciprocal justice measure for measure. The earliest known use of the principle appears in the Code of Hammurabi, which predates the ...
Mishpatim, on Exodus 21–24: The Covenant Code; Terumah, on Exodus 25–27: God's instructions on the Tabernacle and furnishings; Tetzaveh, on Exodus 27–30: God's instructions on the first priests; Ki Tissa, on Exodus 30–34: Census, anointing oil, golden calf, stone tablets, Moses radiant; Vayakhel, on Exodus 35–38: Israelites collect ...
Covenant Code. The Covenant Code, or Book of the Covenant, is the name given by academics to a text appearing in the Torah, at Exodus 20:22 – 23:19; or, more strictly, the term Covenant Code may be applied to Exodus 21:1–22:16. [ 1] Biblically, the text is the second of the law codes said to have been given to Moses by God at Mount Sinai.
Mishpatim. Mishpatim ( מִּשְׁפָּטִים — Hebrew for "laws," the second word of the parashah) is the eighteenth weekly Torah portion ( פָּרָשָׁה , parashah) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading and the sixth in the Book of Exodus. The parashah sets out a series of laws, which some scholars call the Covenant Code.
The Exodus. Departure of the Israelites ( David Roberts, 1829) The Exodus ( Hebrew: יציאת מצרים, Yəṣīʾat Mīṣrayīm: lit. 'Departure from Egypt'[ a]) is the founding myth [ b] of the Israelites whose narrative is spread over four of the five books of the Pentateuch (specifically, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy ).
Attempting to locate many of the stations of the Israelite Exodus is a difficult task, if not infeasible. Though most scholars concede that the narrative of the Exodus may have a historical basis, [9] [10] [11] the event in question would have borne little resemblance to the mass-emigration and subsequent forty years of desert nomadism described in the biblical account.
The main source describing the tabernacle is the biblical Book of Exodus, specifically Exodus 25–31 and 35–40. Those passages describe an inner sanctuary, the Holy of Holies , created by the veil suspended by four pillars.
The words ζῆλος and ζηλωτής are the roots of many words including zeal, zealot, zealotry, zealous, jealous and jealousy. ego sum Dominus Deus tuus fortis, zelotes,, 'I am (the) Lord your strong God, [a] zelot,' – Vg Colunga&Turrado [25] Compare Deuteronomy 5:9.