If he beget a son [that is] a robber, a shedder of blood, and [that] doeth the like to [any] one of these [things],
Ver. 10. If he beget a son.] As he may; for grace is not hereditary. Heroum filii noxae.
That is a robber.] Effractor. A breach maker, whether upon the laws of God, or of men; one that is a pestilent son, as the Septuagint here have it, a plague to his parents, and to his country.
And that doth the like to any one of these things.] Or, That doth to his brother besides any of these, as there are mille artes nocendi.