_WHEN A MAN HATH TAKEN A WIFE, AND MARRIED HER, AND IT COME TO PASS THAT SHE FIND NO FAVOUR IN HIS EYES, BECAUSE HE HATH FOUND SOME UNCLEANNESS IN HER: THEN LET HIM WRITE HER A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT, AND GIVE IT IN HER HAND, AND SEND HER OUT OF HIS HOUSE._ It come to pass that she find no favour in h... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND WHEN SHE IS DEPARTED OUT OF HIS HOUSE, SHE MAY GO AND BE ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN A MAN HATH TAKEN A NEW WIFE, HE SHALL NOT GO OUT TO WAR, NEITHER SHALL HE BE CHARGED WITH ANY BUSINESS: BUT HE SHALL BE FREE AT HOME ONE YEAR, AND SHALL CHEER UP HIS WIFE WHICH HE HATH TAKEN._ When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war. This law of exemption was founded on g... [ Continue Reading ]
_NO MAN SHALL TAKE THE NETHER OR THE UPPER MILLSTONE TO PLEDGE: FOR HE TAKETH A MAN'S LIFE TO PLEDGE._ No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone. The "upper" stone, being concave, covers the "nether" like a lid; and it has a small aperture through which the grain is poured, as well as a h... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF A MAN BE FOUND STEALING ANY OF HIS BRETHREN OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND MAKETH MERCHANDISE OF HIM, OR SELLETH HIM; THEN THAT THIEF SHALL DIE; AND THOU SHALT PUT EVIL AWAY FROM AMONG YOU._ If a man be found stealing any of his brethren - (see the note at Exodus 21:16.) A land so completely a... [ Continue Reading ]
_TAKE HEED IN THE PLAGUE OF LEPROSY, THAT THOU OBSERVE DILIGENTLY, AND DO ACCORDING TO ALL THAT THE PRIESTS THE LEVITES SHALL TEACH YOU: AS I COMMANDED THEM, SO YE SHALL OBSERVE TO DO._ Take heed in the plague of leprosy (see the note at Leviticus 13:14) - avoid all occasion of contracting that dre... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN THOU DOST LEND THY BROTHER ANY THING, THOU SHALT NOT GO INTO HIS HOUSE TO FETCH HIS PLEDGE._ When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, х_ MASHA'T_ (H4859)] - the loan between one Israelite and another of any article that was required, on the ground of pledge until it was restored, without an... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT STAND ABROAD, AND THE MAN TO WHOM THOU DOST LEND SHALL BRING OUT THE PLEDGE ABROAD UNTO THEE._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF THE MAN BE POOR, THOU SHALT NOT SLEEP WITH HIS PLEDGE:_ Thou shalt not sleep with his pledge. Hengstenberg suggests that it should be 'sleep upon his pledge,' founding upon the subsequent phrase, "that he may sleep in his own raiment" [bªsalmaatow]. The Salema, or by transposition, Simela ... [ Continue Reading ]
_IN ANY CASE THOU SHALT DELIVER HIM THE PLEDGE AGAIN WHEN THE SUN GOETH DOWN, THAT HE MAY SLEEP IN HIS OWN RAIMENT, AND BLESS THEE: AND IT SHALL BE RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO THEE BEFORE THE LORD THY GOD._ When the sun goeth down - (see the note at Deuteronomy 16:6.) Sunset were the usual time for returnin... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT NOT OPPRESS AN HIRED SERVANT THAT IS POOR AND NEEDY, WHETHER HE BE OF THY BRETHREN, OR OF THY STRANGERS THAT ARE IN THY LAND WITHIN THY GATES:_ Thou shalt not oppress an hired servant that is poor and needy. Hirelings, who consisted for the most part, though not exclusively, of foreigne... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE FATHERS SHALL NOT BE PUT TO DEATH FOR THE CHILDREN, NEITHER SHALL THE CHILDREN BE PUT TO DEATH FOR THE FATHERS: EVERY MAN SHALL BE PUT TO DEATH FOR HIS OWN SIN._ The fathers shall not be put to death for the children. God, the sovereign author and proprietor of life, may, in certain circumstan... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT NOT PERVERT THE JUDGMENT OF THE STRANGER, NOR OF THE FATHERLESS; NOR TAKE A WIDOW'S RAIMENT TO PLEDGE:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN THOU CUTTEST DOWN THINE HARVEST IN THY FIELD, AND HAST FORGOT A SHEAF IN THE FIELD, THOU SHALT NOT GO AGAIN TO FETCH IT: IT SHALL BE FOR THE STRANGER, FOR THE FATHERLESS, AND FOR THE WIDOW: THAT THE LORD THY GOD MAY BLESS THEE IN ALL THE WORK OF THINE HANDS._ When thou cuttest down thine harv... [ Continue Reading ]