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The dead ox in this case, as well as in the preceding one, must have
been worth no more than the price of the hide, as the flesh could not
be eaten. See Leviticus 17:1....
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CHAPTER 21 DIFFERENT JUDGMENTS
_ 1. Master and servant (Exodus 21:1)_
2. Concerning injury to the person (Exodus 21:12)
3. Concerning property (Exodus 21:33)
The Three Chapter s which follow the gi...
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EXODUS 21:28 E. DAMAGES BY OR TO CATTLE. An ox goring anyone to death
must be stoned, and might not be eaten, as tainted with blood-guilt
(Exodus 21:28). In ancient Greece and elsewhere, and even in m...
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Injury done by an ox to one belonging to another person. If no neglect
can be proved against the owner of the vicious ox, the damage is to be
divided equally between the owners of the two animals (_v....
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Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33
_The Book of the Covenant_
The -Book of the Covenant" (see Exodus 24:7 in explanation of the
name) is the oldest piece of Hebrew legislation that we possess. The
laws co...
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Bodily injuries, caused (_a_) by human beings, _vv._18 27; (_b_) by
animals, or through the neglect of reasonable precautions, _vv._28 36....
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Bodily injuries due to animals, or neglect of reasonable precautions....
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-If this admirable statute were faithfully administered now, it would
prevent many angry, and sometimes fatal, feuds between herds-men, and
at the same time would be a very fair adjustment of the ques...
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THE TEXT OF EXODUS
TRANSLATION
21NOW THESE ARE THE ORDINANCES WHICH THOU SHALT SET BEFORE them.
(2) If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the
seventh he shall go out free for...
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_IF AN OX GORE A MAN OR A WOMAN, THAT THEY DIE: THEN THE OX SHALL BE
SURELY STONED, AND HIS FLESH SHALL NOT BE EATEN; BUT THE OWNER OF THE
OX SHALL BE QUIT._
If an ox gore a man. For the purpose of s...
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THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT (CONTINUED)
I-ii. Regulations regarding the Treatment of Hebrew Slaves.
Slavery was universal in ancient times, and the Mosaic Law does not
abolish it. Among the Hebrews, howe...
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EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION
GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES
EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40
_HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_
CHAPTER 21
*HEBREW SLAVES – VERSES 1-11
V1 The *LORD continued to speak to...
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(35-36) IF ONE MAN’S OX HURT ANOTHER’S. — Where no blame
attached to the owner, the loss was to be equally shared. Where the
dangerous character of the animal was, or ought to have been, known,
the ma...
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LAWS CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF PROPERTY.
(33-36) The legislation slides from rights of persons to rights of
property easily and without effort, by passing from the injuries which
cattle cause to those...
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וְ כִֽי ־יִגֹּ֧ף שֹֽׁור ־אִ֛ישׁ אֶת
־שֹׁ֥ור
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PART III.--RIGHTS OF PROPERTY.
Exodus 21:33 - Exodus 22:15.
The vital and quickening principle in this section is the stress it
lays upon man's responsibility for negligence, and the indirect
consequ...
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At this point we have certain laws which apply the principles of the
Decalogue to life. The first movement has to do with the laws of the
person. This begins with the relation of slaves to their maste...
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Observe, from those laws, how offensive in the sight of God
blood-shedding is, even when committed by the unconscious brute, as
well as by rational creatures....
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"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out
of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of
Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23.
But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes
entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as
He had...
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AND IF ONE MAN'S OX HURT ANOTHER'S, THAT HE DIE,.... By pushing with
his horns, or his body, or by biting with his teeth, as Jarchi, or by
any way whatever:
THEN THEY SHALL SELL THE LIVE OX, AND DIVI...
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1 Lawes for men seruants.
5 For the seruant whose eare is boared.
7 For women seruants.
12 For manslaughter.
16 For stealers of men.
17 For cursers of parents.
18 For smiters.
22 For a hurt by...
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C. FIRST FORM OF THE LAW OF THE POLITICAL COMMONWEALTH
Exodus 21:1 to Exodus 23:33
_a. Right of Personal Freedom (according to Bertheau, ten in number)_
1Now these _are_ the judgments [ordinances] w...
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RESPONSIBILITIES OF MASTERS
(vs.1-11)
Moses is now given an expanded view of the law on Chapter s 21-23.
Special duties of masters are first considered. They may think they
have full authority over t...
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22-36 The cases here mentioned give rules of justice then, and still
in use, for deciding similar matters. We are taught by these laws,
that we must be very careful to do no wrong, either directly or...
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THEY SHALL DIVIDE THE MONEY; not equally, for so the owner of the
mischievous ox might be gainer by the mischief, his ox being much
worse than that which was killed; but in such proportions as the
jud...
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The study of this section of our book is eminently calculated to
impress the heart with a sense d God's unsearchable wisdom and
infinite goodness. It enables one to form some idea of the character
of...
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Exodus 21:35 mans H376 ox H7794 hurts H5062 (H8799) anothers H7453
dies H4191 (H8804) sell H4376 ...
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REGULATIONS FOR INJURIES IN CONNECTION WITH BEASTS (EXODUS 21:28).
In this section there is a very basic chiasmus:
a Punishment for the goring of a man or woman (Exodus 21:28).
b Punishment in respe...
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EXPANSION OF THE TEN WORDS OF THE COVENANT (EXODUS 20:22 TO EXODUS
23:33).
In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly in
chiastic form (see later), Yahweh expands on the Ten W...
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CONTENTS: Laws concerning servants. Injuries to the person.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: The great God of heaven stoops to take interest in the
detail affairs between man and man and makes re...
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Exodus 21:1. _These are the judgments._ In this chapter we enter upon
the fifty seven precepts of the civil law of the Hebrew nation. They
are the laws of patriarchal society; and are here arranged an...
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_If an ox gore._
GOD’S REGARD FOR THE SAFETY OF MAN AND BEAST
I. God cares for the safety of man.
1. If an ox injured a man for the first time, the life of the ox only
was forfeited (Exodus 21:28)....
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EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 21:33 If a person was irresponsible (such as
in not covering a pit, v. Exodus 21:33) or had previous knowledge of a
problem (such as knowing but disregarding an ox’s tendency to
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 21:28_
GOD’S REGARD FOR THE SAFETY OF MAN AND BEAST.—_Exodus 21:28_
This is an extension of the principle maintained in the preceding
section,—the sanctity...
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Exodus chapter twenty-one, God said to Moses,
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them (Exodus
21:1).
Now the judgments are really for the judges. You remember they
appointed seve...