“And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel: and this son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;”
Now the son of an Israelite mother and an Egyptian father went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and an Israelite. The blasphemy case narrative interrupts the sanctuary regulations with a legal case that requires divine resolution: the son of mixed parentage (Israelite mother, Egyptian father) who blasphemes the divine name in the course of a fight. The narrative case communicates that the legal principles that follow are not abstract but arise from real situations in the covenant community's life.
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