George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Exodus 21:13
God. When a person was slain undesignedly, the Providence of God was to be adored in silence, as nothing happens without his permission. (Haydock) See Numbers xxv. 6.
God. When a person was slain undesignedly, the Providence of God was to be adored in silence, as nothing happens without his permission. (Haydock) See Numbers xxv. 6.
Verse Exodus 21:13. _I WILL APPOINT THEE A PLACE WHITHER HE SHALL FLEE._] From the earliest times the nearest akin had a right to revenge the murder of his relation, and as this right was universally...
There was no place of safety for the guilty murderer, not even the altar of Yahweh. Thus all superstitious notions connected with the right of sanctuary were excluded. Adonijah and Joab 1 Kings 1:50;...
CHAPTER 21 DIFFERENT JUDGMENTS _ 1. Master and servant (Exodus 21:1)_ 2. Concerning injury to the person (Exodus 21:12) 3. Concerning property (Exodus 21:33) The Three Chapter s which follow the gi...
EXODUS 21:12 E. CAPITAL OFFENCES. This group, varying in form from the main body of the Judgments, is here regarded as a part of the smaller Book of the Covenant (p. 184). The punishment of murder was...
GOD Hebrew. _Elohim._ deliver. Hebrew idiom,. which God is said to do what He allows to be done. deliver. Hebrew permit him to meet, or come....
_Capital offences_. In _v._12 is laid down the general principle that death is the punishment for killing a man. If the act is unpre-meditated (manslaughter), the penalty is modified (_v._13), but ret...
Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 _The Book of the Covenant_ The -Book of the Covenant" (see Exodus 24:7 in explanation of the name) is the oldest piece of Hebrew legislation that we possess. The laws co...
Manslaughter, and the right of asylum. The distinction, not found in Homer, but thus early drawn among the Hebrews, between intentional and unintentional homicide is noteworthy: it is insisted on in a...
BUT GOD DELIVER HIM INTO HIS HAND— As God is the Lord of life and death, whose providence is over all his works, the Scripture teaches us to ascribe to him all such events, as, in common phrase, are c...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 21NOW THESE ARE THE ORDINANCES WHICH THOU SHALT SET BEFORE them. (2) If thou buy a Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for...
_HE THAT SMITETH A MAN, SO THAT HE DIE, SHALL BE SURELY PUT TO DEATH._ He that smiteth a man so that he die, shall be surely put to death. The preceding acts for protecting the rights and privileges...
For the appointment of cities of refuge as an asylum in the case of accidental homicide, see on Numbers 35:9....
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, howe...
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 21 *HEBREW SLAVES – VERSES 1-11 V1 The *LORD continued to speak to...
IF A MAN LIE NOT IN WAIT, BUT GOD DELIVER HIM INTO HIS HAND. — If, that is, without malice aforethought, a man happen upon his enemy, God’s providence bringing the two into contact without man’s contr...
(12-14) HE THAT SMITETH A MAN, SO THAT HE DIE. — Homicide had been broadly and generally forbidden in the sixth commandment. But something more was necessary. Laws are for the most part inoperative un...
וַ אֲשֶׁר֙ לֹ֣א צָדָ֔ה וְ הָ אֱלֹהִ֖ים
CHAPTER XXI. _ THE LESSER LAW (continued)._ PART II.--RIGHTS OF THE PERSON. Exodus 21:1. The first words of God from Sinai had declared that He was Jehovah Who brought them out of slavery. And in t...
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 maste...
And if a man lie not in wait, but (l) God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. (l) Though a man be killed unawares, yet it is God's providence that it...
In these verses here is a distinction made between willful murder and unintentional manslaughter. Genesis 9:6....
"In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. But having thus terminated the course of grace, the scene changes entirely. They do not keep the feast on the mountain, whither God, as He had...
AND IF A MAN LIE NOT IN WAIT,.... For the life of another to take it away; or does not do it willingly, as the Septuagint version, does not seek after it, nor design it: BUT GOD DELIVERS HIM INTO HIS...
And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver [him] into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee. Ver. 13. _But God deliver him._] Who is the Lord of our lives, and to whom w...
_He that smiteth a man_ Knowingly and wilfully, as appears from the next verse; _shall be surely put to death_ Neither the friends of the person slain nor the magistrate shall give him a pardon, or ac...
1 Lawes for men seruants. 5 For the seruant whose eare is boared. 7 For women seruants. 12 For manslaughter. 16 For stealers of men. 17 For cursers of parents. 18 For smiters. 22 For a hurt by...
And if a man lie not in wait, does not seek a man's life with deliberate intent, BUT GOD DELIVER HIM INTO HIS HAND, God permits it to happen in that manner that a man kills another by accident, THEN I...
CONCERNING MURDER AND BODILY INJURIES...
C. FIRST FORM OF THE LAW OF THE POLITICAL COMMONWEALTH Exodus 21:1 to Exodus 23:33 _a. Right of Personal Freedom (according to Bertheau, ten in number)_ 1Now these _are_ the judgments [ordinances] w...
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 over t...
12-21 God, who by his providence gives and maintains life, by his law protects it. A wilful murderer shall be taken even from God's altar. But God provided cities of refuge to protect those whose unh...
If it appear that the manslayer did not intend nor desire it, but only it fell out by his heedlessness, or by some casualty, or by some unexpected providence; or, God, and not man, God without the man...
The study of this section of our book is eminently calculated to impress the heart with a sense d God's unsearchable wisdom and infinite goodness. It enables one to form some idea of the character of...
Exodus 21:13 wait H6658 (H8804) God H430 delivered H579 (H8765) hand H3027 appoint H7760 (H8804) place...
REGULATIONS IN RESPECT OF EXTREME VIOLENCE TO ANOTHER (EXODUS 21:12). The following regulations all deal with extreme violence towards others. This came first in matters to do with behaviour towards...
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 the Ten W...
CONTENTS: Laws concerning servants. Injuries to the person. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: The great God of heaven stoops to take interest in the detail affairs between man and man and makes re...
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 an...
_Shall be surely put to death._ CASES OF HOMICIDE I. Homicide in effect. “He that hateth his brother is a murderer.” Anger in the heart gives unconscious malicious power to the will. The man is resp...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 21:1 This section contains basic guidelines for living together as a just society and as a people set apart to the Lord. The specific laws are not intended to be exhaustive but a...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 21:13 The reference to A PLACE TO WHICH HE MAY FLEE looks forward to the cities of refuge that the Lord will provide (see Numbers 35:9) to protect those
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 21:12_ CASES OF HOMICIDE A rude state of society requires rough measures for the repression of crime and for the preservation of social order; and in consid...
EXPOSITION THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT.—_Continued_. I. _Laws connected with the rights of persons_ (Exodus 21:1). The regulations of this section concern— 1. Slavery ...
Exodus chapter twenty-one, God said to Moses, Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them (Exodus 21:1). Now the judgments are really for the judges. You remember they appointed seve...
lie not Numbers 35:11 Numbers 35:22 Deuteronomy 19:4 Deuteronomy 19:11...