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The rule would seem to refer to a case in which the wife of a man
interfered in a quarrel. This law, “the jus talionis,” is
elsewhere repeated in substance, compare the marginal references. and
Genesi...
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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 g...
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EXODUS 21:18 E. INJURIES. If one man injures another in a quarrel
(Exodus 21:18), he must, on the recovery of the other, compensate him
for the loss of time and pay his doctor's bill (Exodus 21:19). H...
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LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ See App-13....
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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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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 IF ANY MISCHIEF FOLLOW, THEN THOU SHALT GIVE LIFE FOR LIFE,_ NO
JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE....
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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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LIFE FOR LIFE, EYE FOR EYE. — It is a reasonable conjecture that the
law of retaliation was much older than Moses, and accepted by him as
tolerable rather than devised as rightful. The law itself was...
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וְ אִם ־אָסֹ֖ון יִהְיֶ֑ה וְ נָתַתָּ֥ה
נֶ֖פֶשׁ תַּ֥חַת נָֽפֶשׁ׃...
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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...
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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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The gospel sums up these things in a comprehensive manner. Colossians
3:25. And our dear Lord folds up the sense of those relative duties,
in his unequalled language, Matthew 5:38....
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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 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 IF ANY MISCHIEF FOLLOW,.... According as that is, so shall it be
done to the smiter: if death follows,
THEN THOU SHALT GIVE LIFE FOR LIFE; if death to the woman, so Jarchi
and Aben Ezra interpret...
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And if [any] mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Ver. 23. _And if any mischief follow._] Either by death or maim,
either of mother or child....
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_And yet no mischief follow_ That is, if the woman die not, as appears
from the next verse, or the child was not formed and alive in the
womb; _he shall be surely punished_ The woman's husband shall i...
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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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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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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...
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ANY MISCHIEF; either to the mother or to the child, whether it be
death, or any maim or mischief. Who SHALL GIVE LIFE FOR LIFE? _Answ_.
Not the private person, which would have introduced infinite mis...
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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 21:23 follows H611 give H5414 (H8804) life H5315 life H5315
life for life - Numbers 35:31...
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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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_Life for life._
THE CRIMINAL LAW: WAS IT WRITTEN IN BLOOD
The only sense in which retaliation was authorized was as a maxim of
law, which helped to fix the measure of punishment for crime. It was
th...
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EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 21:22 These verses are difficult to interpret.
The esv offers a traditional understanding in the text and an
alternative view in the footnote. Interpreters agree that the passage...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 21:11_
GOD’S DISAPPROBATION OF BRUTE FORCE.—_Exodus 21:22_
I. One of the great underlying principles and fundamental axioms of
the Mosaic legislation was t...
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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 (Exodus 21:2);
2. Murder and oth...
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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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life for life Numbers 35:31...
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Does this passage show that unborn children are of less value than
adults?
PROBLEM: According to some translations of the Bible, this text
teaches that when fighting men cause a woman to have a
“misc...