The Secret Books

The Book of the Covenant

Click the Book to Read Most of these instructions revolve around social justice, and demand protection for the disenfranchised (23:20-23); fairness in loans (22:24 26); false witness and fairness in judicial proceedings (23:1-3, 6-8); and the injunction to extend aid, even to one’s enemy (23:4-5). By contrast, the instructions in 22:27-30 take up divine prerogatives… Continue Reading