Exodus 21:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. ”

Exodus 21:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Freedom was the proper equivalent for permanent injury.
Exodus 21:27 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And if he smite (s) out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. (s) So God revenges cruelty in the even the least things.
Exodus 21:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Exodus 21:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

smite . Not the same word as elsewhere in this chapter.
Exodus 21:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth; he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake. If he smite out his - tooth - It was a noble law that obliged the unmerciful sla...
Exodus 21:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake. If a man smite the eye of his servant ... he shall let him go f...
Exodus 21:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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,...
Exodus 21:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

The eye ... Tooth. — An exception to the law of retaliation is here made. If the injurer is a free man and the injured person a slave, the marked social inequality of the parties would make exact...
Exodus 21:27 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

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...
Exodus 21:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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...
Exodus 21:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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 .
Exodus 21:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And if he smite out his manservant's tooth, or his maidservant's tooth ,.... Give them such a slap on the face, or a blow on the mouth, as to strike out one of their teeth; this also the Targum of J...
Exodus 21:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

He shall let him go free A very fit recompense to a servant for such a loss, and certainly meant to be extended to every other material personal injury. If an ox Or any other creature.
Exodus 21:27 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Exodus 21:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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...
Exodus 21:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Some confine this to the Israelitish servants, but the text doth not so limit it; and the reason of the law seems to reach to Gentile servants, this being a just punishment to unmerciful masters, (wh...
Exodus 21:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Exodus 21:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 21:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Exodus 21:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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...
Exodus 21:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Concerning Murder and Bodily Injuries

Exodus 21:27 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Exodus 21:27 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Exodus 21:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 21:27 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Exodus 21:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Exodus 21:27 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Exodus 21:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 21:27 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 21:27 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Exodus 21:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Exodus 21:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Exodus 21:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Exodus 21:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 21:27 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 21:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exodus 21:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Exodus 21:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 21:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Exodus 21:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 21:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Exodus 21:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann