Verse Exodus 22:18. _THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE._] If there had been no _witches_, such a law as this had never been made. The existence of the _law_, given under the direction of the Spir...
THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE - See the marginal references. and Leviticus 20:27. The witch is here named to represent the class. This is the earliest denunciation of witchcraft in the law. In...
CHAPTER 22 FURTHER JUDGMENTS _ 1. Concerning theft (Exodus 22:1)_ 2. Concerning neglect in case of fire (Exodus 22:6) 3. Concerning dishonesty (Exodus 22:7) 4. Concerning immoralities and forbidde...
EXODUS 22:18 E. VARIOUS ORDINANCES. From this point up to Exodus 23:9 we have to do with miscellaneous laws, differing in the main both in form and substance from the Judgments, and therefore here reg...
WITCH OR SPIRITIST. Medium to or from, from root to _mutter,_ as to some demon. Compare Leviticus 19:26; Leviticus 19:31; Leviticus 20:27;...
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...
Magic and divination were practised extensively in the ancient world, as indeed they are still among uncivilised peoples and among the uneducated even in civilised countries: we have particularly abun...
THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE— What is here translated _witch,_ is rendered _sorcerer,_ ch. Exodus 7:11 where see an account of the word. In various passages of the law, some of which are poin...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 22 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall pay five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep. (2) If the thief be found breaking in,...
_THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE._ Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live, х_ MªKASHEEPAAH_ (H3784)] - a practitioner in magic and incantations; a juggler, who pretended by skill in occult scien...
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT (CONTINUED) 1. Four sheep] The larger compensation required in the case of the ox is probably due to the fact that it is an animal used for labour, and of proportionately hig...
A WITCH] RV 'sorceress.' The word is the same as that in Exodus 7:11. Sorcery, or the pretended holding communication with evil spirits, is a form of idolatry or rebellion against Jehovah, and punishe...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 22 LAWS ABOUT PROPERTY – VERSES 1-15 V1 The *LORD continued to spe...
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. (16-31) The remainder of the chapter contains laws which it is impossible to bring under any general head or heads, and which can, therefore, only be regarded as miscellaneous. Mo...
THOU SHALT NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE. — The word translated “witch” in this passage is the feminine singular of that rendered by “sorcerers” in Exodus 7:11, and means “a mutterer of charms.” The use...
CHAPTER XXII. _ THE LESSER LAW (continued)._ PART IV. Exodus 22:16 - Exodus 23:19. The Fourth section of this law within the law consists of enactments, curiously disconnected, many of them without...
The laws of property follow. The section really begins with verse Exo 21:33 of the previous chapter. These laws also began by laying emphasis on the guilt of carelessness. The truth emphasized is that...
_Wizards. Hebrew, "a witch." Women are more given to such delusions, which imply an apostacy from God to serve the devil, and disturb the republic._...
Lev_19:31; Lev_20:6; Lev_20:27....
"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...
18._Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. _In these passages the punishment of those is appointed who should in any respect violate the worship of God. We have lately seen how severely God avenged ap...
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...
THOU SHALL NOT SUFFER A WITCH TO LIVE. Such that had familiar spirits, and conversed with them, and by means thereof got knowledge of many things relating to persons, at least pretending they did; and...
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. Ver. 18. _A witch._] An enchantress, sorceress, whose help was sometimes sought in enticing young maids to folly. _a_ The wizzard also is here meant, but the wo...
Witchcraft not only gives that honour to the devil which is due to God alone, but bids defiance to the divine providence, wages war with God's government, puts his work into the devil's hand, expectin...
1 Of theft. 5 Of dammage. 7 Of trespasses. 14.Of borrowing. 16 Of fornication. 18 Of witchcraft. 19 Of bestialitie. 20 Of idolatrie. 21 Of strangers, widowes, and fatherlesse. 25 Of vsurie. 2...
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live; every one, man or woman, actually guilty of witchcraft, was to be put to death. The sorceress is merely named because women were more addicted to this practice t...
REGARDING VARIOUS SOCIAL RELATIONS...
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...
LAWS AS REGARDS PROPERTY (vs.1-15) While one rightly was control over his own property, yet he is also responsible as to how he uses it. If one were to dig a pit, even on his own property, and leave...
i.e. Any person that is in league with the devil, and by his help either doth any mischief, or discovers and practices things above the reach of other men or women. Of which see Exodus 7:11 Leviticus...
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 22:18 sorceress H3784 (H8764) live H2421 (H8762) Leviticus 19:26,...
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...
SUNDRY REGULATIONS (EXODUS 22:18 TO EXODUS 23:9). The regulations that follow are mainly apodictic, direct commands made specifically by God requiring total obedience. As such they are not paralleled...
CONTENTS: Judgments on rights of property; crimes against humanity. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Man's attitude to his fellow man will be based on his attitude to God and His law. KEY WORD:...
Exodus 22:2. _Breaking up,_ by forcible entrance into a house, _there shall no blood be shed for him,_ though he be killed by another in his own defence. In that case the thief might be presumed to ha...
_Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live._ SPIRITUALISM-MODERN WITCHCRAFT The Bible regards witchcraft-- 1. As a stern and diabolical reality (Leviticus 20:27; Deuteronomy 18:9). 2. As unlawful traff...
_SUGGESTIVE COMMENTS ON THE VERSES_ WITCHCRAFT.—_Exodus 22:18_ The term is here used to represent the whole class of wizards, necromancers, and diviners with which the world has been infested from a...
CONCERNING BORROWING.—_Exodus 22:14_ This is an extension of the preceding principles. Borrowing might be for the purpose of—1, obligation; or 2, trade. I. If that which was borrowed received hurt i...
EXPOSITION MISCELLANEOUS LAWS (Exodus 22:16-2) EXODUS 22:16, EXODUS 22:17 _Laws against seduction_. It has been
EXPOSITION II. LAWS CONNECTED WITH RIGHTS OF PROPERTY (verses 33-36). From the consideration of injuries to the person, the legislator proceeds to treat of injuries to property, and, as he has been sp...
If a man shall steal an ox, and kill it, [The rustlers] and sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, four sheep for a sheep (Exodus 22:1). You see in those days they were interested in taking ca...
Leviticus 19:26 Leviticus 19:31 Leviticus 20:6 Leviticus 20:27...
Witchcraft not only gives that honour to the devil which is due to God alone, but bids defiance to the divine providence, wages war with God's government, puts his work into the devil's hand expecting...