Capitolo 46
him worried about the position of servants or enslaved, the difference among
assaults or civil crimes committed with or without the malevolence, theft, transgression and
the regulation of the _lex talionis_. There is nearby to a variety of
the other matters touched on everybody of what you/he/she can be found in the 21, 22d, and
23d chapters of Exodus.
Above to this point in his/her show Moses was involved with discretion and you/he/she had had
gotten a complete success. Next day he followed to ask for a
the acceptance of his/her code that he prepared to submit in form. But as a
preliminary he did ready to pick up Aaron and his/her two children, together with
seventy elders of the congregation on the mountain, especially to be
thrilled with a sacrifice and a party to which he had him in his/her mind
you organize. In the first place, "Moses... colors of rose on soon in the morning, and
builded an altar,... and it sacrificed offers of peace of oxen to the
God....
"And him taken the book of the alliance, and he/she read in the public of the
people: and they said, Everybody that the haths of God have said wants us we do, and it is
obedient."
If Moses had been happy to end here his/her ceremony and to return to the field
with his/her book of the alliance duly accepted as he/she reads, all would have been,
well. But success seems the inebriated possession, and he conceived an undue
contempt for the intelligence of his/her public, being, apparently,
it convinced that there were no limits to their credulity, and that he was able
do with them as him it arranged.
It was not enough for him that he should have to accept them a book to the agenda
for admission written alone. There was not oppressively anything impressive
in that. That that he wanted was a tablet of stone on which should be his/her code
engraved, as it was probably the famous code of Hammurabi that him it knew
well, and this incision must have served putatively as same God give,
it the correct solemnity.
Possession such code as this or engraved alone or from some worker