(35-36) if one man’s ox hurt another’s. — Where no blame attached to the owner, the loss was to be equally shared. Where the dangerous character of the animal was, or ought to have been, known, the man whose ox was killed received its full value.
The dead ox in this case, as well as in the preceding one, must have been worth no more than the price of the hide, as the flesh could not be eaten. See Leviticus 17:1....
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 21:28 E. DAMAGES BY OR TO CATTLE. An ox goring anyone to death must be stoned, and might not be eaten, as tainted with blood-guilt (Exodus 21:28). In ancient Greece and elsewhere, and even in m...
Injury done by an ox to one belonging to another person. If no neglect can be proved against the owner of the vicious ox, the damage is to be divided equally between the owners of the two animals (_v....
-If this admirable statute were faithfully administered now, it would prevent many angry, and sometimes fatal, feuds between herds-men, and at the same time would be a very fair adjustment of the ques...
Bodily injuries due to animals, or neglect of reasonable precautions....
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...
Bodily injuries, caused (_a_) by human beings, _vv._18 27; (_b_) by animals, or through the neglect of reasonable precautions, _vv._28 36....
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...
_IF AN OX GORE A MAN OR A WOMAN, THAT THEY DIE: THEN THE OX SHALL BE SURELY STONED, AND HIS FLESH SHALL NOT BE EATEN; BUT THE OWNER OF THE OX SHALL BE QUIT._ If an ox gore a man. For the purpose of s...
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 כִֽי ־יִגֹּ֧ף שֹֽׁור ־אִ֛ישׁ אֶת ־שֹׁ֥ור
PART III.--RIGHTS OF PROPERTY. Exodus 21:33 - Exodus 22:15. The vital and quickening principle in this section is the stress it lays upon man's responsibility for negligence, and the indirect consequ...
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...
Observe, from those laws, how offensive in the sight of God blood-shedding is, even when committed by the unconscious brute, as well as by rational creatures....
"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...
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...
AND IF ONE MAN'S OX HURT ANOTHER'S, THAT HE DIE,.... By pushing with his horns, or his body, or by biting with his teeth, as Jarchi, or by any way whatever: THEN THEY SHALL SELL THE LIVE OX, AND DIVI...
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...
And if one man's ox hurt another's that he die, then they shall sell the live ox, the one that did the damage, AND DIVIDE THE MONEY OF IT; AND THE DEAD OX ALSO THEY SHALL DIVIDE, both parties, in this...
ORDINANCES FOR THE PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY...
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...
22-36 The cases here mentioned give rules of justice then, and still in use, for deciding similar matters. We are taught by these laws, that we must be very careful to do no wrong, either directly or...
THEY SHALL DIVIDE THE MONEY; not equally, for so the owner of the mischievous ox might be gainer by the mischief, his ox being much worse than that which was killed; but in such proportions as the jud...
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 21:35 mans H376 ox H7794 hurts H5062 (H8799) anothers H7453 dies H4191 (H8804) sell H4376 ...
REGULATIONS FOR INJURIES IN CONNECTION WITH BEASTS (EXODUS 21:28). In this section there is a very basic chiasmus: a Punishment for the goring of a man or woman (Exodus 21:28). b Punishment in respe...
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...
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...
_If an ox gore._ GOD’S REGARD FOR THE SAFETY OF MAN AND BEAST I. God cares for the safety of man. 1. If an ox injured a man for the first time, the life of the ox only was forfeited (Exodus 21:28)....
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 21:33 If a person was irresponsible (such as in not covering a pit, v. Exodus 21:33) or had previous knowledge of a problem (such as knowing but disregarding an ox’s tendency to
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 21:28_ GOD’S REGARD FOR THE SAFETY OF MAN AND BEAST.—_Exodus 21:28_ This is an extension of the principle maintained in the preceding section,—the sanctity...
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...