Leviticus 19:13 You shall not defraud your neighbour; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a labourer until morning. 14You shall not revile the deaf or put a stumbling-block before the blind; you shall fear your God: I am the Lord. 15 You shall not render an unjust judgement; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbour.

1. What does keeping wages until the morning mean? I should have said, 'No employer at this time should have kept wages...'
2. How amazing the instructions re: the blind and deaf in this ancient worldview right?
3. How does v. 15 point to common errors in judgment re: the rich and poor?

17 You shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove your neighbour, or you will incur guilt yourself. 18You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself: I am the Lord.

4. So reproving our neighbor is the opposite of hating them. Why?
5. If we neglect reproof, what might result acc. to v. 18?
6. Finally, our judgments and justice must not result in what? And if we want mercy for our mistakes…?

20 If a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave, designated for another man but not ransomed or given her freedom, an inquiry shall be held. They shall not be put to death, since she has not been freed; 21but he shall bring a guilt-offering for himself to the Lord, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, a ram as guilt-offering. 22And the priest shall make atonement for him with the ram of guilt-offering before the Lord for his sin that he committed; and the sin he committed shall be forgiven him.

7. I bring this up as a reminder of how not every aspect of the Law is eternal. What is troubling about this aspect of the law? Can a slave really choose whether or not to agree to her master? So what does this law suggest? What is unjust about it?