Women in he Mosaic law
Part 7:
Now we have gone thru the part of the high status we can go to the low status in the law.
Here we know the thinsg women can't be in the law for instance they cannot be priest but can be A prophet.
Leviticus 21:1-6
Here the lord establishes what is law nad said thru 21:1-6 to also he whole chapter of 21 and 22 talk about the all the commands to make priests and thier roles in it.
21 The Lord said to Moses, “Tell these things to Aaron’s sons, the priests: A priest must not make himself unclean by touching a dead person. 2 But if the dead person was one of his close relatives, he can touch the dead body. The priest can make himself unclean if the dead person is his mother or father, his son or daughter, his brother or 3 his unmarried[
a] sister. (This sister is close to him because she has no husband. So the priest may make himself unclean for her if she dies.) 4 But a priest must not make himself unclean if the dead person was only one of his slaves.[
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5 “Priests must not shave their heads bald. They must not shave off the edges of their beards. They must not make any cuts in their bodies. 6 Priests must be holy for their God. They must show respect for God’s name. They offer the bread and special gifts to the Lord, so they must be holy.
But here we see where the bible says the first women prophet existed.
Exodus 15:20
20 Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing.
Another situation is divorce, only men can ask to the court to be divorce A women cannot go and ask to any court, priest, or king to divorce from his husband.
Deuteronomy 24:1-4
24 If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house
Only men can solicit to courts for divorce another situation is war only men here God gave laws for them to go to war and only men are in this verses
Deuteronomoy 20:1-19
When you go to war against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours, do not be afraid of them, because the Lord your God, who brought you up out of Egypt, will be with you.
As you see in the verses no mention of women where in this verses and God only told moses to send men into war. Another issue is women cannot do is be A witness even thought the bible says men and women can be witnesses women weren't allowed in the times of moses women could not be in courts and be witness. Simply men were prefrred and A women did see A crime it was cast out as A candidate.
22:15
15 then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin.
We saw this in part 5 women of the mosaic law and here also applies.
Deuteronomy 17:6
6 But no one should be punished with death if only one witness says that person did that evil thing. But if two or three witnesses say it is true, the person must be killed.
here you can see the witneses it does not say only men anyone who saw it.
Numbers 35:30
30 “‘Anyone who kills a person is to be put to death as a murderer only on the testimony of witnesses. But no one is to be put to death on the testimony of only one witness.
Deuteronomy 19:1-12
law of witnesses.
people in those times were hard in the mosaic law and people lived by the point of the sword , rule of an eye for an eye, and the strongest ruled in those time even if jews obeyed the law they had to handle all type of cases in court in history prejudice and promblems in those day for instances made it hard for them The Halak rules by rabbias that will explain to solve those promblmes only men that are fit that are fit that are free are not sick can be witness inside the court but know that throughout history.
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And rabbias have said even though they were having promblems in those times later in the kingdom era and the exile of babylon women were used as witnesses can be witness but know women thoughout hsitory even though they were having promblmes in those times the use women in some isntance in A women can become witness in some parts of the courtcourt like the marriage the section ketubah and kiddush also the gidor converting gentiles into hebrews but with the consent of the individual and the rabbia judging the whole case can ask the women to participate but if it doesn't hurt the case.
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so people in those segments of the law women can be witness and rabbias in some certain isntances can let women be those witness. but for you to undersand it depends the case and the rabbia will decide because of society in those times. Back in those times people remember that man were the ones that sustian the family who gave food who own the property and were given all those stuff and they were the majority women were given by the law equal status and higher but still society in those times did not recognize those things were more depended on the law of the strongests, law of the point of the sword or the law of an eye for an eye.
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But to find the exception of the law there was one it was 22:15 mother could be witness in case things like that happen.
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But the other thing they cannot do is be A judge.
Deuteronomy 17:8-13
No mention of women beign judge only men can be judge.
Law Courts
8 If cases come before your courts that are too difficult for you to judge—whether bloodshed, lawsuits or assaults—take them to the place the Lord your God will choose. 9 Go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office at that time. Inquire of them and they will give you the verdict. 10 You must act according to the decisions they give you at the place the Lord will choose. Be careful to do everything they instruct you to do. 11 Act according to whatever they teach you and the decisions they give you. Do not turn aside from what they tell you, to the right or to the left. 12 Anyone who shows contempt for the judge or for the priest who stands ministering there to the Lord your God is to be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel. 13 All the people will hear and be afraid, and will not be contemptuous again.
Another excpetion is women cannot be queens.
Deuteronomy 17:14-20
Here the law of kings and only applies to men.
14 When you enter the land the Lord your God is giving you and have taken possession of it and settled in it, and you say, “Let us set a king over us like all the nations around us,” 15 be sure to appoint over you a king the Lord your God chooses. He must be from among your fellow Israelites. Do not place a foreigner over you, one who is not an Israelite.
There is only one record of one women being queen and that is Atalah or Athaliah and even thought she was a bad queen for some she was the first to be queen in history of here nation. For only six years of her reign and save one of the people thru the desendancy of the kingship.
2 Kings 11:1-20
11 When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she proceeded to destroy the whole royal family.
Know those are things before the mosaic and in the mosaic law the law did protect women even though people in the modern time don't know it they think all the women were oppressed in those times there were the moments in times in the laws that existed that protected women and their rights. Gave way for women to have their rights in their part in history. All the high, equal, and low status were all part of the history of the jewish people And women have thier part in the history of thejewish people. And it's a big one and their are manyt hings and more information is going to be revealed now that we see that law area were going to keep on going and see thru the bible and many instances that women did their part in the plan of God.
Like women like Eve the first woman who is mother of all humankind she did her part as role fo all mothers, Sarah who is another mother, is the on of all Israel and was wife of Abraham she was giving blessings like Abraham, Also Hagar the mother of arabs, wife of Abraham also she gave birth A civilization like Sarah but without a husband and was blessed, and Miriam sister of moses, the first women prophet.
There were the most imporant women but women not writting in hollywood or seen in movies did do gigantics things like Sherah the daughter of Ephraim
1 Chronicles 7:24
People dind't know in A time when their so much prejudice women built cities, no there is more women women like her and the bible have and we also have another one Deborah the prophet she saved her peopel and did the plan of god and in moments that are so difficult for normal men and we also have another women. another women like Rahab who was not hebrew but still ahd faith and if it wasn't for her Israel would of not been made, besides this great ladies that defend Israel serve God and his plan there are other greta women : Rebekah, Rachel, Leah, wife of Gideon, Manoehs' wife, Hanah, Ruth, and other wise women in those times.
This are the times this women did battle and they all did their part of the plan of God. The next part we will the women in the times of the kings and queens of Israel and if there was women great bravery and love that did the plan of G-d.