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Verse Exodus 21:33. _AND IF A MAN SHALL OPEN A PIT, OR - DIG A PIT_]
That is, if a man shall open a _well_ or _cistern_ that had been
before closed up, or dig a new one; for these two cases are plain...
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The usual mode of protecting a well in the East was probably then, as
now, by building round it a low circular wall....
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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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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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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...
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IF A MAN SHALL OPEN A PIT— We have had frequent occasion, in our
notes on the Book of Genesis, to mention these _pits_ which were
usually dug in this country; and which, being dug in common or public...
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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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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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IF A MAN SHALL OPEN A PIT. — Rather, _uncover a well._ The wells in
the East commonly have covers, which are removed when water is drawn,
and then replaced. If a man neglected to replace a cover, he w...
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וְ כִֽי ־יִפְתַּ֨ח אִ֜ישׁ בֹּ֗ור אֹ֠ו
כִּֽי
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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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33._And if a man shall open a pit _He enumerates still more cases of
damage inflicted, in which restitution is to be demanded of the person
who gave occasion for the occurrence. First, it is said, If...
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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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IF A MAN SHALL OPEN A PIT,.... That has been dug in time past, and
filled up again, or take the covering from it, and leave it uncovered:
"or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it": a new one, in...
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And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not
cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;
Ver. 33. _And an ox or an ass._] We can hardly open the deep pit of
God's bottomless, b...
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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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And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit and not
cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein, the result being that his
neighbor is harmed in his possessions,...
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ORDINANCES FOR THE PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY...
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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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If a man shall either OPEN an old pit which hath been covered with
earth; or DIG a new PIT, to wit, in a public way, as the reason of the
law shows; for if it were done in a man's own house or ground,...
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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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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...
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Psalms 9:15 Psalms 119:85 Proverbs 28:10 Ecclesiastes 10:8...