What happensPermalink
Moses gives laws for atoning for unsolved murders, marrying female captives, avoiding favoritism in marriages, dishonoring one’s parents, and leaving dead men on display.
Why it mattersPermalink
The law against leaving dead men hanging on a tree explains Jesus’s friends’ desire to take Him down and bury Him as soon as He died.
Key versePermalink
“Accept atonement, O Lord, for your people Israel, whom you have redeemed, and do not set the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of your people Israel, so that their blood guilt be atoned for.”