_STRIPES MUST NOT EXCEED FORTY: THE BROTHER MUST MARRY THE WIFE OF A BROTHER WHO HAS DIED WITHOUT CHILDREN: DIVERS WEIGHTS AND MEASURES ARE AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD: THE REMEMBRANCE OF AMALEK IS TO BE BLOTTED OUT._ _Before Christ 1451._... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 2, 3. _THE JUDGE SHALL CAUSE HIM TO LIE DOWN,_ &C.— To prevent severity in judgment upon persons found guilty of misdemeanors, Moses here not only enjoins the number of stripes to be inflicted, but takes care that it shall be done before the face of the judge himself. The criminal lay down in... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 4. _THOU SHALT NOT MUZZLE THE OX,_ &C.— In Judea, as well as in Egypt, Greece, and Italy, they made use of beeves to tread out the corn; and Dr. Shaw tells us, that the people of Barbary continue to tread out their corn after the custom of the East. Instead of beeves, they frequently make use... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 5-10. _IF BRETHREN DWELL TOGETHER,_ &C.— The great end of this law was, to preserve inheritances in the families to which they belonged: and the meaning plainly is, that, if a brother died without children, the next unmarried relation, whether brother or kinsman, was to marry the wife of the... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 13. _THOU SHALT NOT HAVE IN THY BAG DIVERS WEIGHTS_— In the margin of our Bibles, _a stone and a stone:_ so, _a heart and a heart,_ meaneth a double and deceitful heart; 1 Chronicles 12:33. The same mode of expression is used in the 14th verse. This law teaches them to be so far from practisi... [ Continue Reading ]
_VER._ 19. _THOU SHALT BLOT OUT THE REMEMBRANCE OF AMALEK_— Respecting the transaction here referred to, see Exodus 17 from the 8th verse to the end. This deletion of Amalek was completed by the death of Haman the Amalekite; Esther 3:1; Esther 7:10. See the Reflections on the Destruction of the Cana... [ Continue Reading ]