Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Exodus 21:34
The owner of the pit, i.e. he by whose hand or command it was made, shall give money equal to the worth of the dead beast, in the opinion of the judge.
The owner of the pit, i.e. he by whose hand or command it was made, shall give money equal to the worth of the dead beast, in the opinion of the judge.
The usual mode of protecting a well in the East was probably then, as now, by building round it a low circular wall....
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...
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...
Having paid the value of the dead animal to the owner, he is naturally at liberty to keep the carcase himself. The carcase would be of value for its hide: but though -that which died of itself" was fo...
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...
Injury caused by culpable neglect in leaving an open pit. _open_ i.e. open a pit which already existed = _reopen_. _a pit_ for the storage of water or (cf. Jeremiah 41:8; Thomson, _L. and B._i. 89, 9...
Bodily injuries due to animals, or neglect of reasonable precautions....
Bodily injuries, caused (_a_) by human beings, _vv._18 27; (_b_) by animals, or through the neglect of reasonable precautions, _vv._28 36....
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...
_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...
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...
THE DEAD _beast_ SHALL BE HIS] It is assumed that he has paid the full value of the live animal....
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...
THE DEAD BEAST SHALL BE HIS. — Having paid the full value of the live animal, the owner of the well was entitled to make what he could by the carcass....
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...
בַּ֤עַל הַ בֹּור֙ יְשַׁלֵּ֔ם כֶּ֖סֶף יָשִׁ֣יב...
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...
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...
The owner of the pit shall (y) make [it] good, [and] give money unto the owner of them; and the dead [beast] shall be his. (y) This law forbids not only to hurt, but to beware lest any be hurt....
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....
"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...
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...
THE OWNER OF THE PIT SHALL MAKE IT GOOD,.... Repair the loss of the ox or ass: AND GIVE THE MONEY UNTO THE OWNER OF THEM: the price of them, what they are worth: the Targum of Jonathan is, "the owne...
The owner of the pit shall make [it] good, [and] give money unto the owner of them; and the dead [beast] shall be his. Ver. 34. _The owner of the pit shall make it good._] Think the same of other cat...
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...
the owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them, restore their full value in money; and the dead beast shall be his, he may dispose of the carcass as he sees fit....
ORDINANCES FOR THE PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Exodus 21:34 owner H1167 pit H953 good H7999 (H8762) give H7725 (H8686) money H3701 owner H1167 dead...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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)....
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
_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...
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...
Exodus 21:29 Exodus 21:30 Exodus 22:6 Exodus 22:14...