Deuteronomy 25:1-4
OF BODILY PUNISHMENTS... [ Continue Reading ]
OF BODILY PUNISHMENTS... [ Continue Reading ]
If there be a controversy between men, some matter of litigation, AND THEY COME UNTO JUDGMENT, bring the matter before the proper officers, THAT THE JUDGES MAY JUDGE THEM, THEN THEY, the judges, SHALL JUSTIFY THE RIGHTEOUS AND CONDEMN THE WICKED, declare the latter to be guilty before the law, Exodu... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall be if the wicked man, he whom the judges have found to be in the wrong, BE WORTHY TO BE BEATEN, literally, "if a son of stripes the guilty one," THAT THE JUDGE SHALL CAUSE HIM TO LIE DOWN, AND TO BE BEATEN BEFORE HIS FACE, while he personally witnessed the punishment, ACCORDING TO HIS F... [ Continue Reading ]
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed, this precept later resulting in the limit's being placed at thirty-nine, for there was danger of miscounting, and the Jews, especially after the return from the exile, were anything if not literal, 2 Corinthians 11:24; LEST, IF HE SHOULD EXCEED AND BEAT... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. The usual form of threshing in the Orient is that on a threshing-floor out in the open, where the grain was spread out and oxen driven back and forth across the floor to loosen the grain from the hulls by stepping upon the ears. The humane... [ Continue Reading ]
If brethren dwell together, upon the same paternal inheritance, AND ONE OF THEM DIE AND HAVE NO CHILD, no one to perpetuate his family, and thus to keep his property in the possession of the family, THE WIFE OF THE DEAD SHALL NOT MARRY WITHOUT UNTO A STRANGER, any one outside her tribe or kindred; H... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LEVIRATE MARRIAGE... [ Continue Reading ]
And it shall be that the first-born which she beareth shall succeed in the name of his brother which is dead, being considered and registered in the genealogical table as the son and rightful heir of his mother's first husband, THAT HIS NAME BE NOT PUT OUT OF ISRAEL. In this way many difficult quest... [ Continue Reading ]
And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, for the marriage was not an absolute or unavoidable duty, THEN LET HIS BROTHER'S WIFE GO UP TO THE GATE UNTO THE ELDERS, for questions of right and justice mere usually disposed of in the open space inside the city gates, AND SAY, MY HUSBAND'S BROT... [ Continue Reading ]
Then the elders of his city shall call him and speak unto him; and if he stand to it and say, I like not to take her, if he found himself unable to throw off the unwillingness to comply with the custom as fixed by the levirate lam,... [ Continue Reading ]
then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, go directly up to him right there in public, because he was bound to submit to what followed, AND LOOSE HIS SHOE FROM OFF HIS FOOT, AND SPIT IN HIS FACE, AND SHALL ANSWER AND SAY, SO SHALL IT BE DONE UNTO THAT MAN THAT WILL N... [ Continue Reading ]
And his name shall be called in Israel "The house of him that hath his shoe loosed. " So the disgrace would rest upon the man, even in the nickname which he bore, for having neglected the duty of relationship to his brother. There is no discrepancy between this passage and the law of Leviticus 18. F... [ Continue Reading ]
when men strive together one with another, become engaged in fisticuffs, AND THE WIFE OF THE ONE DRAWETH NEAR FOR TO DELIVER HER HUSBAND OUT OF THE HAND OF HIM THAT SMITETH HIM, AND PUTTETH FORTH HER HAND, AND TAKETH HIM BY THE SECRETS,... [ Continue Reading ]
CORRECT WEIGHTS AND MEASURES... [ Continue Reading ]
then thou, the constituted authority, SHALT CUT OFF HER HAND, THINE EYE SHALL NOT PITY HER. This precept was here inserted in order to guard against a false freedom and familiarity of the female sex toward those of the opposite sex.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt not have in thy bag, usually a large leather sack or purse, DIVERS WEIGHTS, A GREAT AND A SMALL, a set of large stones for purchases, a set of small ones for sales. This could be done both where stones and where scraps of iron were used by the merchants.... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small, a large ephah or dry measure for purchases, a small ephah for sales.... [ Continue Reading ]
But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, each one, whether in the shop or in the house, complete, whole, holding just the amount which it was supposed to hold, A PERFECT AND JUST MEASURE SHALT THOU HAVE, THAT THY DAYS MAY BE LENGTHENED IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD, THY GOD, GIVETH THEE, in the m... [ Continue Reading ]
For all that do such things, in making use of dishonesty in any form, AND ALL THAT DO UNRIGHTEOUSLY, any one guilty of deliberate wrong-doing, ARE AN ABOMINATION UNTO THE LORD, THY GOD. But this consideration shown the neighbor at home was not to degenerate into a false weakness and indulgence towar... [ Continue Reading ]
Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt, Exodus 17:8;... [ Continue Reading ]
how he met thee by the way, namely, at Rephidim near Horeb, AND SMOTE THE HINDMOST OF THEE, EVEN ALL THAT WERE FEEBLE BEHIND THEE, WHEN THOU WAST FAINT AND WEARY; AND HE FEARED NOT GOD. The inhumanity practiced by the Amalekites in thus injuring and destroying the stragglers of the Israelitish army... [ Continue Reading ]
Therefore it shall be when the Lord, thy God, hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord, thy God, giveth thee for an in heritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it. Cf 12:10; Exodus... [ Continue Reading ]