_THOU SHALT NOT RAISE A FALSE REPORT: PUT NOT THINE HAND WITH THE WICKED TO BE AN UNRIGHTEOUS WITNESS._ Thou shalt not raise a false report, х_ LO'_ (H3808) _ TISAA'_ (H5375)] - Thou shalt not take up, entertain, or spread; and, in accordance with this view of the import of the word, the Septuagint... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT NOT FOLLOW A MULTITUDE TO DO EVIL; NEITHER SHALT THOU SPEAK IN A CAUSE TO DECLINE AFTER MANY TO WREST JUDGMENT:_ Thou shalt not follow a multitude, х_ RABIYM_ (H7227)] - many. This makes a very good sense; because the caution against being misled into evil by the influence of prevailing... [ Continue Reading ]
_NEITHER SHALT THOU COUNTENANCE A POOR MAN IN HIS CAUSE._ Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause, х_ LO'_ (H3808) _ TEHDAR_ (H1921)] - Thou shalt not honour a poor man; or, Thou shalt not embellish or varnish the cause of a poor man, to give it a better colouring than it merits: met... [ Continue Reading ]
_IF THOU MEET THINE ENEMY'S OX OR HIS ASS GOING ASTRAY, THOU SHALT SURELY BRING IT BACK TO HIM AGAIN._ If thou meet thine enemy's ox ... going astray. The ox and the donkey are specified as samples of the stock which constituted the staple property of the Israelites. The object of these counsels ob... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT NOT WREST THE JUDGMENT OF THY POOR IN HIS CAUSE._ Thou shalt not wrest the judgment of thy poor in his cause. These verses contain a series of cautions to rulers and magistrates to take careful heed that the fountains of justice should not be polluted, through favour and partiality on t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND SIX YEARS THOU SHALT SOW THY LAND, AND SHALT GATHER IN THE FRUITS THEREOF:_ SIX YEARS THOU SHALT SOW - intermitting the cultivation of the land every seventh year. But it appears that even then there was a spontaneous produce which the poor were permitted freely to gather for their use; and wha... [ Continue Reading ]
_SIX DAYS THOU SHALT DO THY WORK, AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY THOU SHALT REST: THAT THINE OX AND THINE ASS MAY REST, AND THE SON OF THY HANDMAID, AND THE STRANGER, MAY BE REFRESHED._ Six days thou shalt do thy work. This law is repeated (see the notes at Exodus 20:9), lest any might suppose there was a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IN ALL THINGS THAT I HAVE SAID UNTO YOU BE CIRCUMSPECT: AND MAKE NO MENTION OF THE NAME OF OTHER GODS, NEITHER LET IT BE HEARD OUT OF THY MOUTH._ Make no mention ... - i:e., in common conversation, for a familiar use of them would tend to lessen the horror of idolatry (cf. Hos. 11:14-17; Zecha... [ Continue Reading ]
_THREE TIMES THOU SHALT KEEP A FEAST UNTO ME IN THE YEAR._ Three times thou shalt keep a feast unto me in the year, х_ SHAALOSH_ (H7969) _ RªGAALIYM_ (H7272)] - three beats, or times, which were counted by the beating of the foot. Rabbinical writers say that the Jews were accustomed, in allusion to... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT KEEP THE FEAST OF UNLEAVENED BREAD: (THOU SHALT EAT UNLEAVENED BREAD SEVEN DAYS, AS I COMMANDED THEE, IN THE TIME APPOINTED OF THE MONTH ABIB; FOR IN IT THOU CAMEST OUT FROM EGYPT: AND NONE SHALL APPEAR BEFORE ME EMPTY:)_ Thou shalt keep the feast of unleavened bread, х_ HA-MATSOWT_ (H4... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE FEAST OF HARVEST, THE FIRSTFRUITS OF THY LABOURS, WHICH THOU HAST SOWN IN THE FIELD: AND THE FEAST OF INGATHERING, WHICH IS IN THE END OF THE YEAR, WHEN THOU HAST GATHERED IN THY LABOURS OUT OF THE FIELD._ And the feast of harvest - called also "the Feast of Weeks," or Pentecost, 50 days a... [ Continue Reading ]
_THREE TIMES IN THE YEAR ALL THY MALES SHALL APPEAR BEFORE THE LORD GOD._ All thy males shall appear before the Lord God. All the males who were purified, including indigenous or home-born servants (persons circumcised), were enjoined to repair to the tabernacle, and afterwards the temple, and the... [ Continue Reading ]
_THOU SHALT NOT OFFER THE BLOOD OF MY SACRIFICE WITH LEAVENED BREAD; NEITHER SHALL THE FAT OF MY SACRIFICE REMAIN UNTIL THE MORNING._ Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread - literally, upon leavened bread; i:e., until all leaven has been completely removed from your hou... [ Continue Reading ]
_THE FIRST OF THE FIRSTFRUITS OF THY LAND THOU SHALT BRING INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD THY GOD. THOU SHALT NOT SEETHE A KID IN HIS MOTHER'S MILK._ The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God (see the notes at Exodus 23:15; Numbers 18:12; Deuteronomy... [ Continue Reading ]
_BEHOLD, I SEND AN ANGEL BEFORE THEE, TO KEEP THEE IN THE WAY, AND TO BRING THEE INTO THE PLACE WHICH I HAVE PREPARED._ Behold, I send an Angel before thee. The word "Behold" introduces a new paragraph or division. The communication of these ordinances and judgments, made to him in private, and by... [ Continue Reading ]
_THERE SHALL NOTHING CAST THEIR YOUNG, NOR BE BARREN, IN THY LAND: THE NUMBER OF THY DAYS I WILL FULFIL._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_I WILL SEND MY FEAR BEFORE THEE, AND WILL DESTROY ALL THE PEOPLE TO WHOM THOU SHALT COME, AND I WILL MAKE ALL THINE ENEMIES TURN THEIR BACKS UNTO THEE._ I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people, х_ 'ET_ (H854) _ 'EEYMAATIY_ (H367)] - my terror (cf. Genesis 35:5); the conste... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL SEND HORNETS BEFORE THEE, WHICH SHALL DRIVE OUT THE HIVITE, THE CANAANITE, AND THE HITTITE, FROM BEFORE THEE._ And I will send hornets before thee (cf. Deuteronomy 7:20) х_ 'ET_ (H854) _ HATSIR`AAH_ (H6880)] - hornet, with the article prefixed, used collectively and metaphorically as a... [ Continue Reading ]
_I WILL NOT DRIVE THEM OUT FROM BEFORE THEE IN ONE YEAR; LEST THE LAND BECOME DESOLATE, AND THE BEAST OF THE FIELD MULTIPLY AGAINST THEE._ I will not drive them out from before thee in one year, ... Many reasons recommended a gradual extirpation of the pagan inhabitants of Canaan. But one only is h... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I WILL SET THY BOUNDS FROM THE RED SEA EVEN UNTO THE SEA OF THE PHILISTINES, AND FROM THE DESERT UNTO THE RIVER: FOR I WILL DELIVER THE INHABITANTS OF THE LAND INTO YOUR HAND; AND THOU SHALT DRIVE THEM OUT BEFORE THEE._ I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistine... [ Continue Reading ]