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A:Exodus chapter 21 is concerned with matters such as the proper regulation of slavery and some quite harsh Jewish laws such as that a son must be put to death if he curses his father, and the famous eye for an eye commandment.


These have nothing to do with modern laws.

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The first half of Exodus chapter 21 is concerned with slavery, so I agree with Answer 1, that it does not have much to due with modern laws. However, much of the latter half of Exodus 21 deals with compensation for injurious conduct. It makes individuals responsible for compensating victims of their violent acts (see Ex. 21:22), makes individuals responsible for animal-caused damage in certain cases (see Ex. 21:29), and makes individuals compensate others for death of their animals (see Ex. 21:32-33). It is certainly not as nuanced or as complex as modern tort law, but it serves as a point of origin.

If you meant Exodus 20, you were thinking of the Ten Commandments, whose only real gifts to modern law are the prohibitions on stealing, murder, and perjury. All of these required significant nuances before becoming modern law.

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