Deuteronomy 24:6-16

XXIV. 6 f., 10- 13, which stood perhaps originally together, belong to the many humanitarian laws of D (Deuteronomy 15:12 *). Corn is still ground in the home in Palestine; this is done by the rotation of an upper on a lower round stone (cf. the British quern used in Scotland in 1880 according to E. B. Tylor (Academy, vol. xviii. (1880) p. 204).

Deuteronomy 24:7. Exodus 21:16 (JE). Here the law is narrower. In CH (§ 14) it is only the nobleman who may not be stolen (Deuteronomy 15:12 *).

Deuteronomy 24:8 f. See Leviticus 13:14 f.* (P). JE is silent on the matter. Probably some lost code or torah is referred to in Deuteronomy 24:8.

Deuteronomy 24:10. Exodus 22:26 f.* Modern Arabs often sleep in their day clothes (Aba, etc.) as the present writer has himself in Palestine had to do on occasions, even when spending the night in an Arab sheikh's house.

Deuteronomy 24:12. Cf. Deuteronomy 24:6.

Deuteronomy 24:14 f. Leviticus 19:13 (H). In CH (§ 268- 277) there is a scale of charges for the hire of animals (ox for threshing, etc.) or of things (ships, etc.).

Deuteronomy 24:16. See Deuteronomy 21:1 *.