(1) These are the rules that you shall set before them:
After the ten divine imperatives, couched in absolute terms and addressed to each Israelite in the second-person singular, we have a series of miscellaneous laws formulated casuistically (i.e., according to hypothetical case: "Should a man do X,..."). This collection of laws, which make up chapter 21 through chapter 23, is conventionally called the Book of the Covenant, in accordance with the phrase used in 24:7...
Robert Alter
(7) Then he took the book of the covenant and read it aloud to the people. And they said, “All that Adonai has spoken we will do, and we will hear."
These cherry-picked examples have contemporary parallels, but now go through chapters 21-23 in full. What wisdom can we glean from the ancient societal rules on slavery, selling daughters, agriculture, and festivals?