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CHAPTER XXI
_If a man be found slain in a field, and the cause of his death_
_be unknown, the murder shall be expiated by the sacrifice of a_
_heifer in an uncultivated valley_, 1-4.
_The rites to...
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17. THE EXPIATION OF AN UNCERTAIN MURDER AND VARIOUS INSTRUCTIONS
CHAPTER 21
_ 1. The expiation of an unknown murder (Deuteronomy 21:1)_
2. Concerning a wife, who had been a prisoner of war (Deuter...
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See W. R. Smith, _Kinship_ 1 p. 263 (= 64f. in _Kinship_ 2) for a
similar law among the ancient Arabs. The ground of this law may be the
belief that, until avenged or atoned for, a murdered man's bloo...
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THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4.
LYING. fallen down....
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_If one be found_ So Deuteronomy 17:2; Deuteronomy 24:7, also Sg.
passages.
_which the Lord thy God_ IS TO GIVE _thee_ see on Deuteronomy 19:14.
_lying_ Heb. _falling_but wit
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(b) Expiation for an Unknown Murderer's Crime (Deuteronomy 21:1-9)
If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to
possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath s...
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_IF ONE BE FOUND SLAIN IN THE LAND WHICH THE LORD THY GOD GIVETH THEE
TO POSSESS IT, LYING IN THE FIELD, AND IT BE NOT KNOWN WHO HATH SLAIN
HIM:_
If one be found slain ... lying in the field. The cer...
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EXPIATION OF UNDETECTED HOMICIDE. MARRIAGE OF CAPTIVE WOMEN.
PUNISHMENT OF A REBELLIOUS SON
The last sub-section of the Second Discourse begins here, containing a
variety of social and domestic regul...
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DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE
LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD
DEUTERONOMY
_PHILIP SMITH_
CHAPTER 21
V1 ‘Suppose that there has been a murder. Then someone finds the
dead body in a field. It is...
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XXI.
Deuteronomy 21:1. UNDETECTED HOMICIDES.
(1) IF ONE BE FOUND SLAIN — It is remarkable that _in_ our own time
the most effectual remedy against outrages of which the perpetrators
cannot be discov...
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כִּי ־יִמָּצֵ֣א חָלָ֗ל בָּ † אֲדָמָה֙
אֲשֶׁר֩...
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THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF ISRAELITE LIFE
IT has often and justly been said that the life of Israel is so
entirely founded on the grace and favor of God that no distinction is
made between the secular an...
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Sundry laws affecting the life of the people in the land after the
conquest were now uttered. The sin of murder was once again dealt
with. This time it was the murder of a person which could not be
tr...
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Land. The Jewish doctors hence infer, that if the corpse was found
hanging or drowned &c., or nearer a town of the Gentiles than one of
the Israelites, this law did not oblige. They are so exact as to...
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CONTENTS
Provision is made in this chapter for various circumstances, of such
things as might arise in the government of Israel. Here are
appointments for the discovery of murder: for the marriage of...
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I pause at these verses to remark the particularity of feature in the
beast, which was doomed as a victim on this occasion; that it must be
one which hath not been wrought with. Is not this typical of...
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It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this
book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22.
What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
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1._If one be found slain in the land_. This Supplement: is of a mixed
character, relating partly to the civil, and partly to the criminal
law. We are informed by it how precious to God is the life of...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19, 20, AND 21.
Chapter 19 opens with ordinances which contemplate the people in
possession and enjoyment of the land; they were to observe them, that
the la...
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IF ONE BE FOUND SLAIN,.... After public war with an enemy, Moses
proceeds to speak of a private quarrel and fight of one man with
another, in which one is slain, as Aben Ezra observes:
IN THE LAND WH...
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If [one] be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee
to possess it, lying in the field, [and] it be not known who hath
slain him:
Ver. 1. _In the field._] Or elsewhere; the field is...
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_Lying in the field_ Or, in the city, or any place: only the field is
named as the place where such murders are most commonly committed.
_Thy elders and judges_ Those of thy elders who are judges: the...
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1 The expiation of an vncertaine murder.
10 The vsage of a captiue taken to wife.
15 The first borne is not to be disinherited vpon priuate affection.
18 A stubburne sonne is to bee stoned to death...
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If one be found slain in the land which the Lord, thy God, giveth thee
to possess it, somewhere out in the open, on the soil, LYING IN THE
FIELD, where the murderer had left or dragged him, AND IT BE...
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THE CASE OF AN UNKNOWN MURDER...
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UNSOLVED MURDER
(vs.1-9)
If one was killed and his body found removed from any city or town,
the murderer being unknown, then elders and judges of Israel were
required to ascertain what was the near...
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1-9 If a murderer could not be found out, great solemnity is provided
for putting away the guilt from the land, as an expression of dread
and detesting of that sin. The providence of God has often wo...
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DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 21 How to expiate an uncertain murder, DEUTERONOMY
21:1. The usage of a captive taken to wife, DEUTERONOMY 21:10. The
first born, though the son of the hated, is not to be disinher...
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"If one be found slain in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee
to possess it, lying in the field, and it be not known who hath slain
him; then _ thy elders_ and _ thy judges"_ the guardians of...
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Deuteronomy 21:1 found H4672 (H8735) slain H2491 lying H5307 (H8802)
field H7704 land H127 LORD H3068 God...
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REGULATION CONCERNING VIOLENT DEATH WHERE THE MURDERER IS NOT KNOWN
(DEUTERONOMY 21:1).
While for convenience we are splitting up Moses' speech into parts it
should be noted that it is our arrangement...
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CONTENTS: Inquest for the slain. Domestic regulations.
CHARACTERS: God, Moses.
CONCLUSION: We are to have a dread of the guilt of blood, which
defiles not only the conscience of the murderer but the...
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Deuteronomy 21:4. _A rough valley._ The guilt being transferred to the
heifer, the slaying it in a cultivated field would have polluted the
ground. The Hebrew altar allowed of no victim to be offered...
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_If one be found slain._
GOD’S VALUE OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE
“This narrative,” says one, “sets forth the preciousness of
human life in the sight of God.” Dr. Jamieson believes this singular
statute conce...
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DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 21:1 IN THE LAND. These laws will
keep the Promised Land free from being unclean.
⇐...
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CRITICAL NOTES.—The reason for grouping these five laws, apparently
so different from one another, as well as for attaching them to the
previous regulations is found in the desire to bring out distinc...
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EXPOSITION
EXPIATION OF UNCERTAIN MURDER. TREATMENT OF A CAPTIVE TAKEN TO WIFE.
RIGHTS OF THE FIRSTBORN. A REBELLIOUS, REFRACTORY SON TO BE JUD
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Now in the 21st chapter.
If you find a dead body out in the field and you don't know the
circumstances of the death; here's a man; he's dead in the field. Then
they are to measure from that dead body...
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Acts 28:4; Isaiah 26:21; Proverbs 28:17; Psalms 5:6; Psalms 9:12...
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The field — Or, in the city, or any place: only the field is named,
as the place where such murders are most commonly committed....