XXI.
LAWS CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF PERSONS.
(1) These are the judgments. — “The laws” (Knobel), “the rights” (Keil), “the rules which shall guide judicial decisions” (Pool). The paraphrase alone gives the full meaning.
CHAPTER XXI _Laws concerning_ servants. _They shall serve for only seven_ _years_, 1, 2. _If a servant brought a wife to servitude with him, both should go_ _out free on the_ seventh _year_, 3. I...
JUDGMENTS - i. e. decisions of the law....
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...
EXODUS 21:1 E. THE JUDGMENTS. This is best taken as the heading of a fresh collection, The Judgments (p. 184), consisting of case-law, mainly about property, and containing some striking parallels wit...
Chapter s 21-23 are an expansion of chapter 20....
_Now_ AND introducing a new element in the collection, viz. the -judgements" contained in Exodus 21:2 to Exodus 22:17. _the judgements_ i.e. legal precedents, intended to have the force of law. The He...
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...
NOW THESE ARE THE JUDGMENTS— The subsequent divine laws are delivered in an irregular and interrupted method; most probably, because they were written down by Moses one after another, and delivered by...
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...
_NOW THESE ARE THE JUDGMENTS WHICH THOU SHALT SET BEFORE THEM._ Now these are the judgments, х_ HAMISHPAATIYM_ (H4941)] - the statutes, ordinances; Septuagint, ta dikaioomata, ordinances (cf. Hebrews...
21:1 judgments (a-5) Fixed ordinances....
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...
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...
וְ אֵ֨לֶּה֙ הַ מִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר תָּשִׂ֖ים...
THE LESSER LAW. Exodus 20:18 - Exodus 23:33. With the close of the Decalogue and its universal obligations, we approach a brief code of laws, purely Hebrew, but of the deepest moral interest, confes...
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...
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...
_Judgments, or laws directing the civil conduct of the Israelites. (Menochius)_...
CONTENTS For the better apprehension of the moral law before given in the second table of it, Moses enlargeth in this Chapter upon the particular precepts, in relation to the duty to be shown to serv...
"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...
1._Now these are the judgments_. Both passages contain the same appointment, viz., that as to the Hebrews slavery must end at the seventh year; for God would have the children of Abraham, although obl...
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...
NOW THESE ARE THE JUDGMENTS,.... The judicial laws respecting the civil state of the people of Israel, so called because they are founded on justice and equity, and are according to the judgment of Go...
Now these [are] the judgments which thou shalt set before them. Ver. 1. _Now these are the judgments,_] i.e., The judicial laws, fitly annexed to the Decalogue, whereof the civil magistrate is the lo...
The first verse is the general title of the laws contained in this and the two following Chapter s. Their government being purely a theocracy, that which in other states is to be settled by human prud...
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...
PRECEPTS REGULATING THE MASTER'S RELATION TO SLAVES...
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. These were special ordinances concerning the political commonwealth of the Jews. In the New Testament God's revelation is no longer confin...
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...
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...
1-11 The laws in this chapter relate to the fifth and sixth commandments; and though they differ from our times and customs, nor are they binding on us, yet they explain the moral law, and the rules...
EXODUS CHAPTER 21 Law concerning bond-men or slaves, EXODUS 21:1. Servants bored through the ear, EXODUS 21:6. Ordinances for bond-women, EXODUS 21:7. Of murderers,...
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...
Exodus 21:1 judgments H4941 set H7760 (H8799) before H6440 the judgments - Leviticus 18:5,...
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...
FURTHER COVENANT PROVISIONS (EXODUS 21:1 TO EXODUS 23:33). Exodus 21:1 “Now these are the judgments that you will set before them.” Having made known His covenant, and having established how they m...
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...
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...
_These are the Judgments._ THE JUDGMENTS These judgments stood related to the second table of the Law, just as the regulations concerning the worship of the altar stood related to the first. It is to...
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...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 21:1. Judgments.] Here begins the second part of “The Book of the Covenant” (ch. Exodus 24:7), the entire contents of which seem to range themselves thus:— 1. Safeguards of wo...
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 ...
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...
the judgments Leviticus 18:5 Leviticus 18:26 Leviticus 19:37 Leviticus 20:22...
The first verse is the general title of the laws contained in this and the two following chapters. Their government being purely a theocracy; that which in other states is to be settled by human prude...