“ Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. ”
Judgments - i. e. decisions of the law.
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 parall...
Chapter s 21-23 are an expansion of chapter 20.
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, alth...
Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them. Now these are the judgments - There is so much good sense, feeling, humanity, equity, and justice in the following laws, that they cann...
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...
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 (c...
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,...
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...
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...
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 mast...
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 ser...
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...
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...
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 pru...
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 ov...
Judicial Laws. B. C. 1491. 1 Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before t...
EXODUS CHAPTER 21 Law concerning bond-men or slaves, Exodus 21:1-5 . Servants bored through the ear, Exodus 21:6 . Ordinances for bond-women, Exodus 21:7-11 . Of murderers, Exodus 21:12...
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...
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. Safeguar...
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...
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 i...
EXPOSITION THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT .— Continued . I. Laws connected with the rights of persons ( Exodus 21:1-2 ). The regulations of this section concern— 1 . Slavery ( Exodus 2...
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 confi...
the judgments Leviticus 18:5 Leviticus 18:26 Leviticus 19:37 Leviticus 20:22 Numbers 35:24 Deuteronomy 5:1 Deuteronomy 5:31 Deuteronomy 6:20 1 Kings 6:12 2 Chronicles 19:10 Nehem...
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 pr...