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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...
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JUDGMENTS - i. e. decisions of the law....
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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 21:1 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...
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Chapter s 21-23 are an expansion of chapter 20....
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_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...
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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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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...
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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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_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...
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21:1 judgments (a-5) Fixed ordinances....
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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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וְ אֵ֨לֶּה֙ הַ מִּשְׁפָּטִ֔ים אֲשֶׁ֥ר
תָּשִׂ֖ים...
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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...
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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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_Judgments, or laws directing the civil conduct of the Israelites.
(Menochius)_...
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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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PRECEPTS REGULATING THE MASTER'S RELATION TO SLAVES...
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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...
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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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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...
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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,...
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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 21:1 judgments H4941 set H7760 (H8799) before H6440
the judgments - Leviticus 18:5,...
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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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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...
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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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_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...
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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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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...
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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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the judgments Leviticus 18:5 Leviticus 18:26 Leviticus 19:37 Leviticus
20:22...
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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...