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President Bartlett: Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I have you here. I'm interested in selling my youngest daughter into slavery as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophmore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be?
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Doesn't look like it condones slavery...as much as if you do own slaves or do slavery, don't do it to your own folks. And there were a ton of other "do's and don'ts" regarding slavery...up into the New Testament which said to treat them as equals in Christ (Philemon comes to mind and Paul's empassioned plea to release him to ministry).
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While thinking about that, can I ask another? My Chief of Staff Leo McGarry insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself or is it okay to call the police?
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It is that according to the New Testament (Heb. 3-4, Col. 2) the Sabbath was meant to prefigure the rest that the people of God now have in Christ. Now that that which was prefigured has come, the laws of the Sabbath are followed differently. To the question of why Sabbath breaking was a capital offense in the first place, it is probably because it involved transgressing a holy worship ordinance among God’s people. (from
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Here's one that's really important because we've got a lot of sports fans in this town: touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point?
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Do people still follow Mosaic law? Of course. It is still considered unclean for many jews to eat prok products.