“ And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, ”
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 Ge...
Exodus 21:18-27 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 ( Exo...
life . soul. Hebrew. nephesh. See App-13.
And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life, No JFB commentary on this verse.
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,...
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 w...
CHAPTER XXI. THE LESSER LAW (continued). PART II.--RIGHTS OF THE PERSON. Exodus 21:1-32 . The first words of God from Sinai had declared that He was Jehovah Who brought them out of slavery...
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...
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 5:38-39 .
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 inte...
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.
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...
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...
22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him...
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 infinit...
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 th...
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 21:11-19 GOD’S DISAPPROBATION OF BRUTE FORCE.— Exodus 21:22-25 I. One of the great underlying principles and fundamental axioms of the Mosaic legisl...
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...
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 wa...
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...
Concerning Murder and Bodily Injuries
life for life Numbers 35:31