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This is the first mention of the Sabbatical year; the law for it is
given at length in Leviticus 25:2. Both the Sabbatical year and the
weekly Sabbath are here spoken of exclusively in their relation...
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CHAPTER 23 FURTHER JUDGMENTS AND DIRECTIONS
_ 1. Concerning unrighteous dealings of various kinds (Exodus 23:1)_
2. Concerning the seventh year (Exodus 23:10)
3. Concerning the three feasts (Exodus...
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EXODUS 23:10 E. CALENDAR AND RULES FOR WORSHIP. This passage may
originally have followed Exodus 23-26 in the Covenant Book. It has
been expanded, Exodus 23:13 being a conclusion (perhaps displaced fr...
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FRUITS. Hebrew harvest....
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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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The fallow year. In every seventh year the fields, vineyards, and
olive-gardens are to remain uncultivated, such produce as they bear
naturally being not gathered by the owners, but left to the poor....
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The seventh year to be a fallow year, and the seventh day to be a day
of rest. The motive, it may be noticed, is in each case a
philanthropic one....
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AND SIX YEARS— See Leviticus 25 for the particulars respecting the
sabbatical year: see also Deuteronomy 31:10; Deuteronomy 31:30.
_Note:_ 1. Every seventh year the land was neither plowed nor sown,
n...
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THE TEXT OF EXODUS
TRANSLATION
23 THOU SHALT NOT TAKE UP A FALSE REPORT: PUT NOT THY HAND WITH THE
WICKED TO BE AN UNRIGHTEOUS WITNESS. (2) THOU SHALT NOT FOLLOW A
MULTITUDE TO DO EVIL; NEITHER SHALT...
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_AND SIX YEARS THOU SHALT SOW THY LAND, AND SHALT GATHER IN THE FRUITS
THEREOF:_ SIX YEARS THOU SHALT SOW - intermitting the cultivation of
the land every seventh year. But it appears that even then t...
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THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT (CONCLUDED)
1-19. Miscellaneous Laws....
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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 23
LAWS ABOUT HOW TO BE FAIR AND HOW TO BE KIND – VERSES 1-9
V1 Th...
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CEREMONIAL LAWS.
(10, 11) SIX YEARS... THE SEVENTH YEAR. — The Sabbatical year which
is here commanded was an institution wholly unknown to any nation but
the Hebrews. It is most extraordinary that an...
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XXIII.
(1-19) The “miscellaneous laws” are here continued. From Exodus
23:1 to Exodus 23:9 no kind of sequence in the laws can be traced;
from Exodus 23:10 to the first clause of...
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LAWS OF CONDUCT AND WORSHIP
Exodus 23:1
We may apply these various precepts to our own hearts. Many of them
breathe the very spirit of Christ. We must watch our speech, so that
no man's character may...
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The enactments now recorded have to do with the administration of
justice. A study of them reveals that true justice is always merciful
and yet makes sterner demand than any moral code of laws. The di...
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These verses contain a precept, in which there is much signification.
The seventh year, like the seventh day of the week, was sacred, and
therefore was to be a sabbath of rest. And it had several very...
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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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10._And six years shalt thou sow. _Another Sabbatical institution
(_Sabbathismus_) follows, viz., that of years, in reference to the
cultivation of the land; for as men and cattle rested on every seve...
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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 SIX YEARS THOU SHALL SOW THY LAND, The land of Canaan, given to
their ancestors and to them, and which they were now going to inherit;
and when they came into it they were to plant it with vines a...
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And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits
thereof:
Ver. 10. _Thou shalt sow thy land._] Here the wise man's counsel would
be remembered, _Laudato ingentia rura, exiguum co...
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The institution of the sabbatical year was designed, 1st, To show what
a plentiful land that was into which God was bringing them, that so
numerous a people could have rich maintenance out of the prod...
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1 Of slander and false witnesse. 3.6 Of iustice.
4 Of charitablenesse.
10 Of the yeere of rest.
12 Of the Sabbath.
13 Of idolatrie.
14 Of the three feasts.
18 Of the blood and the fat of the sac...
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THE HOLY PERIODS AND FEASTS...
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And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits
thereof, whatever it yields under careful cultivation;...
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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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INSISTENCE ON HONESTY
(vs.1-9)
Consistently with the language of law, the question of honesty is
looked at from a negative viewpoint, that is, emphasizing what one
should not do. How easily one may c...
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10-19 Every seventh year the land was to rest. They must not plough
or sow it; what the earth produced of itself, should be eaten, and not
laid up. This law seems to have been intended to teach depen...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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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 23:10 Six H8337 years H8141 sow H2232 (H8799) land H776 gather
H622 (H8804) produce H8393
six
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REGULATIONS CONCERNING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF YAHWEH'S LORDSHIP (EXODUS
23:10).
Here we have two sets of regulations which refer to work and rest.
A SEVEN-YEAR REST (EXODUS 23:10).
Exodus 23:10
“An
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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: Judgments on the national feasts. Instructions concerning
the conquest of Canaan.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: God's angels will keep the believer in the way, though it
lay through...
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Exodus 23:1. _Put not thine hand with the wicked,_ do not conspire or
agree with them.
Exodus 23:3. _Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man._ The meaning
of this and the former verse is, there sha...
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_The seventh year thou shalt let it rest._
THE SABBATIC YEAR
This law was intended--
1. To show the fertility of the land of promise. Every seventh year,
without skill or toil, the land would produ...
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EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 23:10 See note on 20:22–26.
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 23:10_
SABBATIC YEARS AND DAYS
It has been said that a life according to nature is the highest good.
Now, most certainly, a life conducted on the principles...
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THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT.—_Continued_.
EXPOSITION
EXODUS 23:1
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS—_continued_. The same want of logical
arrangement appears in this chapter as in the preceding one. The first
nine ve...
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Thou shalt not raise a false report: [perjury] to put your hand with
the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. [In other words, conspiracy
in perjury.] Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; [Yo...
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The institution of the sabbatical year was designed, To shew what a
plentiful land that was, into which God was bringing them, that so
numerous a people could have rich maintenance out of the products...