John Trapp Complete Commentary
Exodus 21:23
And if [any] mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Ver. 23. And if any mischief follow.] Either by death or maim, either of mother or child.
And if [any] mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,
Ver. 23. And if any mischief follow.] Either by death or maim, either of mother or child.
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...
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 21:18 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...
LIFE. soul. Hebrew. _nephesh._ See App-13....
The _Lex Talionis_. But _if any mischief_ HAPPEN, then compensation is to be made on the principle of the _lex talionis. Vv._23 25 are, however, worded quite generally, and mention many injuries not a...
Bodily injuries, caused (_a_) by human beings, _vv._18 27; (_b_) by animals, or through the neglect of reasonable precautions, _vv._28 36....
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...
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...
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...
_AND IF ANY MISCHIEF FOLLOW, THEN THOU SHALT GIVE LIFE FOR LIFE,_ NO JFB COMMENTARY ON THIS VERSE....
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...
_ANY_ MISCHIEF] beyond the loss of the child (Exodus 21:22). The law of retaliation ('like for like') is common to all early stages of civilisation: cp. e.g. art. 'Laws of Hammurabi.' It is a rough an...
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...
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...
(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...
וְ אִם ־אָסֹ֖ון יִהְיֶ֑ה וְ נָתַתָּ֥ה נֶ֖פֶשׁ
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...
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....
"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 ANY MISCHIEF FOLLOW,.... According as that is, so shall it be done to the smiter: if death follows, THEN THOU SHALT GIVE LIFE FOR LIFE; if death to the woman, so Jarchi and Aben Ezra interpret...
_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...
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...
CONCERNING MURDER AND BODILY INJURIES...
And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,...
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...
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...
ANY MISCHIEF; either to the mother or to the child, whether it be death, or any maim or mischief. Who SHALL GIVE LIFE FOR LIFE? _Answ_. Not the private person, which would have introduced infinite mis...
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 21:23 follows H611 give H5414 (H8804) life H5315 life H5315 life for life - Numbers 35:31...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 21:23 Compensation for a life taken or harmed shall be LIFE FOR LIFE, EYE FOR EYE, TOOTH FOR TOOTH... STRIPE FOR STRIPE (see also Leviticus 2
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...
_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...
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...
life for life Numbers 35:31...
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...