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Verse Exodus 23:12. _SIX DAYS THOU SHALT DO THY WORK_] Though they
were thus bound to keep the sabbatical year, yet they must not neglect
the seventh day's rest or weekly Sabbath; for that was of per...
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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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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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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 sabbath, treated here as a day of cessation from (in particular)
_field-labour_, designed with a humanitarian end.
_thy work_ The word (_ma-ǎseh_), which is not the same as the one
(_melâ"khâh_) r...
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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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_SIX DAYS THOU SHALT DO THY WORK, AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY THOU SHALT
REST: THAT THINE OX AND THINE ASS MAY REST, AND THE SON OF THY
HANDMAID, AND THE STRANGER, MAY BE REFRESHED._
Six days thou shalt d...
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THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT (CONCLUDED)
1-19. Miscellaneous Laws....
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On the reason annexed to the fourth commandment, see on Exodus 20:10;
Exodus 20:11.
14-17. The Three Great Annual Feasts are Passover and Unleavened Bread
in the month of Abib, Feast of Weeks or Pente...
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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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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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The law of the weekly Sabbath is here repeated in conjunction with
that of the Sabbatical year, to mark the intimate connection between
the two, which were parts of one and the same system — a system...
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שֵׁ֤שֶׁת יָמִים֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה
מַעֲשֶׂ֔יךָ וּ בַ †...
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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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12._Six days thou shalt do thy work. _In this passage the incidental
use of the Sabbath is again referred to, although it is no inherent
part of its original institution, viz., that by its means the f...
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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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SIX DAYS THOU SHALT DO THY WORK,.... That is, they might do what work
they would on the six days of the week:
AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY THOU SHALL REST; from all the work and labour
done on other days,...
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Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt
rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy
handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
Ver. 12. _Six days._] _...
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_The seventh day thou shalt rest_ This command is here repeated lest
any should think the weekly rest might cease when the whole year was
consecrated to rest. There were three sorts of sabbaths to the...
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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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Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt
rest, mainly by desisting from work, THAT THINE OX AND THINE ASS MAY
REST, AND THE SON OF THY HANDMAID AND THE STRANGER MAY BE REFRES...
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THE HOLY PERIODS AND FEASTS...
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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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This command is here repeated, lest any should think the weekly rest
might cease when the whole year was consecrated to rest. There were
three sorts of sabbaths to the Jews:
1. Of days.
2. Of years,...
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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 23:12 Six H8337 days H3117 do H6213 (H8799) work H4639 seventh
H7637 day H3117 rest H7673 ...
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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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_On the seventh day thou shalt rest._
LABOUR AND REST
I. That rest is needful--“May be refreshed.”
1. Rest is needful that the exhausted faculties may repose after past
work.
2. Rest is needful th...
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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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six days Exodus 20:8 Exodus 31:15 Exodus 31:16 Luke 13:14 and the son...