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Verse Exodus 21:15. _THAT SMITETH HIS FATHER, OR HIS MOTHER_] As such
a case argued peculiar depravity, therefore no mercy was to be shown
to the culprit....
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The following offences were to be punished with death:
Striking a parent, compare Deuteronomy 27:16.
Cursing a parent, compare the marginal references.
Kidnapping, whether with a view to retain the...
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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 21:12 E. CAPITAL OFFENCES. This group, varying in form from the
main body of the Judgments, is here regarded as a part of the smaller
Book of the Covenant (p. 184). The punishment of murder was...
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SMITETH. Here and elsewhere in this chapter (except Exodus 21:26), to
smite to death, or seriously....
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_Capital offences_. In _v._12 is laid down the general principle that
death is the punishment for killing a man. If the act is
unpre-meditated (manslaughter), the penalty is modified (_v._13), but
ret...
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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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Striking a parent. Notice that the mother is placed on an equality
with the father.
_smiteth_ simply, without killing: the murder of a parent would fall
under the general rule of _v._12. The severity...
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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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_AND HE THAT SMITETH HIS FATHER, OR HIS MOTHER, SHALL BE SURELY PUT TO
DEATH._
He that smiteth his father or his mother, х_ 'AABIYW_ (H1) _
Wª'IMOW_ (H517) - his father and his mother. The 'and' is t...
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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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SMITETH] not necessarily with fatal effect. Reverence towards parents
was regarded in ancient times as more a religious than a social duty,
and a breach of the fifth commandment, like blasphemy, was a...
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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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(15-17) AND HE THAT SMITETH HIS FATHER...-With homicide are conjoined
some other offences, regarded as of a heinous character, and made
punishable by death: viz. (1), striking a parent; (2) kidnapping...
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וּ מַכֵּ֥ה אָבִ֛יו וְ אִמֹּ֖ו מֹ֥ות
יוּמָֽת
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CHAPTER XXI.
_ THE LESSER LAW (continued)._
PART II.--RIGHTS OF THE PERSON.
Exodus 21:1.
The first words of God from Sinai had declared that He was Jehovah Who
brought them out of slavery. And in t...
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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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_Striketh, even though death should not ensue. But some require a
grevious wound, and that the son should be twice admonished,
Deuteronomy xxi. 18. Parricide seemed a crime so shocking and
unnatural,...
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Observe the uplifted hand in smiting the parent is made capital, like
the sin of murder. Proverbs 30:17; Deuteronomy 21:21; Deuteronomy
21:21....
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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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The commandment is now sanctioned by the denunciation of capital
punishment for its violation, _yet _not so as to comprehend all who
have in any respect sinned against their parents, but sufficient to...
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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 HE THAT SMITETH HIS FATHER OR HIS MOTHER,.... With his fist, or
with a stick, or cane, or such thing, though they died not with the
blow, yet it occasioned any wound, or caused a bruise, or the pa...
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And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to
death.
Ver. 15. _He that smiteth._] By the law of God, of nature, and of
nations, such a man should die. And herein, I think, our...
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_He that smiteth his father_, &c. So sacred and inviolable is that
reverence which children owe to their parents, that, by the law of
God, it was death not only to strike them, but even to curse or
ou...
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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 he that smiteth his father or his mother shall be surely put to
death. So highly was the honor of parents esteemed in the sight of God
that the mere act of striking either of them was equivalent t...
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CONCERNING MURDER AND BODILY INJURIES...
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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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12-21 God, who by his providence gives and maintains life, by his law
protects it. A wilful murderer shall be taken even from God's altar.
But God provided cities of refuge to protect those whose unh...
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HE THAT SMITETH; either,
1. So as is before mentioned, EXODUS 21:12, _so as they die_. And _to
smite_ sometimes signifies _to kill_, as GENESIS 4:15 2 KINGS 14:5,
compared with...
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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 21:15 strikes H5221 (H8688) father H1 mother H517 surely H4191
(H8800) death H4191 (H8714)...
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REGULATIONS IN RESPECT OF EXTREME VIOLENCE TO ANOTHER (EXODUS 21:12).
The following regulations all deal with extreme violence towards
others. This came first in matters to do with behaviour towards...
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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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_He that smiteth his father._
GOD’S INDIGNATION AGAINST THE UNFILIAL SPIRIT
I. The unfilial spirit in two aspects.
1. He that smiteth his father or his mother.
(1) A child may smite his parent lit...
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EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 21:1 This section contains basic guidelines
for living together as a just society and as a people set apart to the
Lord. The specific laws are not intended to be exhaustive but a...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 21:12_
CASES OF HOMICIDE
A rude state of society requires rough measures for the repression of
crime and for the preservation of social order; and in consid...
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EXPOSITION
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT.—_Continued_.
I. _Laws connected with the rights of persons_ (Exodus 21:1). The
regulations of this section concern—
1. Slavery ...
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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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To smite either father or mother, in a manner which indicated
Deuteronomy 21:18 Deuteronomy 27:24 Proverbs 30:11 Proverbs 30:17