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Verse Exodus 21:22. _AND HURT A WOMAN WITH CHILD_] As a _posterity_
among the Jews was among the peculiar promises of their covenant, and
as every man had some reason to think that the Messiah should...
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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
Genesi...
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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...
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EXODUS 21:18 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 (Exodus 21:19). H...
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CHILD... SO. Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6); supply "who
intervenes".
PUNISHED. amerced, or fined. The laws of Khammurabi distinguished
between three classes (§§209, 211, 213). Here it is _any_...
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Bodily injuries, caused (_a_) by human beings, _vv._18 27; (_b_) by
animals, or through the neglect of reasonable precautions, _vv._28 36....
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Bodily injuries caused by human beings. Four cases are taken, two
arising out of a quarrel, and two out of rough treatment of a slave
(_vv._22 25 would more naturally follow _vv._18, 19). In fixing th...
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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...
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Injury arising to a pregnant woman out of an affray.
_And if men strive together_ i.e. quarrel and fight, ch. Exodus 2:13;
2 Samuel 14:6; Psalms 60 _title_. The same words in...
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AND YET NO MISCHIEF FOLLOW— The literal translation of this in the
Hebrew is, and _there shall not be death;_ which is much more proper
than our version....
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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...
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_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; AND HE SHAL...
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21:22 delivered, (f-16) Lit. 'her children go forth.'...
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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...
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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...
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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 was...
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(22-25) A personal injury peculiar to women — a hurt producing
miscarriage — is here considered. The miscarriage might cost the
woman her life, in which case the man who caused it was to suffer
death...
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IF MEN STRIVE, AND HURT A WOMAN WITH CHILD. — It is assumed that
this hurt would probably take place through the interference of a
pregnant wife in some strife wherein her husband was engaged. It woul...
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וְ כִֽי ־יִנָּצ֣וּ אֲנָשִׁ֗ים וְ
נָ֨גְפ֜וּ אִ
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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...
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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...
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If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart
[from her], and yet no (q) mischief follow: he shall be surely
punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he...
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But live herself. So Josephus also reads, Antiquities iv. 8. But Philo
and the Septuagint have, "of a child unformed;" and ver. 23, "But if
the child be formed, ( exeikonismenon, animated and organize...
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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....
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"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...
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22._If men strive_, _and hurt a woman_. This passage at first sight is
ambiguous, for if the word death (39) only applies to the pregnant
woman, it would not have been a capital crime to put an end to...
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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...
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IF MEN STRIVE,.... Quarrel and fight with one another, which is to be
understood of Hebrews, as Aben Ezra observes:
AND HURT A WOMAN WITH CHILD; who being the wife of one of them, and
also an Israeli...
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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; and he sha...
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_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 i...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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22-36 The cases here mentioned give rules of justice then, and still
in use, for deciding similar matters. We are taught by these laws,
that we must be very careful to do no wrong, either directly or...
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A WOMAN WITH CHILD, to wit, the wife of the other person, who
interposed herself to succour her husband. NO MISCHIEF FOLLOW, neither
to the woman nor child; for it is generally so as to reach both, in...
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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...
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Exodus 21:22 men H582 fight H5327 (H8735) hurt H5062 (H8804) woman
H802 child H2030 prematurely H3206...
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REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE CAUSING OF INJURY (EXODUS 21:22).
This may be analysed as follows:
a Where a pregnant woman loses her child in a fight but the woman is
not brought close to death (no misc...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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 was
th...
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EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 21:22 These verses are difficult to interpret.
The esv offers a traditional understanding in the text and an
alternative view in the footnote. Interpreters agree that the passage...
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_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 21:11_
GOD’S DISAPPROBATION OF BRUTE FORCE.—_Exodus 21:22_
I. One of the great underlying principles and fundamental axioms of
the Mosaic legislation was t...
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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 ...
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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...
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strive Exodus 21:18 as the judges Exodus 21:30 Deuteronomy 16:18
Deuteronomy 22:18...
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Does this passage show that unborn children are of less value than
adults?
PROBLEM: According to some translations of the Bible, this text
teaches that when fighting men cause a woman to have a
“misc...