Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Deuteronomy 22:10
An ox and an ass — Because the one was a clean beast, the other unclean whereby God would teach men to avoid polluting themselves by the touch of unclean persons or things.
An ox and an ass — Because the one was a clean beast, the other unclean whereby God would teach men to avoid polluting themselves by the touch of unclean persons or things.
Verse Deuteronomy 22:10. _THOU SHALT NOT PLOUGH WITH AN OX AND AN ASS_] It is generally supposed that mixtures of different sorts in seed, breed, c., were employed for superstitious purposes, and the...
Compare the marginal reference. The prohibition of Deuteronomy 22:10 was also dictated by humanity. The ox and the donkey being of such different size and strength, it would be cruel to the latter to...
18. AGAINST INHUMANITY AND DIFFERENT VIOLATIONS, False Testimony and Sins of Adultery CHAPTER 22 _ 1. Laws against inhumanity (Deuteronomy 22:1)_ 2. Concerning false testimony (Deuteronomy 22:13)...
See Exodus 23:4 f.* (JE) and Leviticus 6:1 * (P), and _cf._ CH. §§ 9- 13. Deuteronomy 22:5. Peculiar to Dt. In one of the rites of Canaanite, Phœ nician, and Syrian heathenism the sexes changed dresse...
OX AND AN ASS. One clean, the other unclean; one tall, the other short, therefore cruel under the same yoke....
Three Laws against Mixing (1) seeds, (2) animals in ploughing, (3) cloths in a garment. The first and third also in H, Leviticus 19:19 (cp. P, Leviticus 11:37, against defiling seed), along with one a...
_an ox and an ass together_ This is frequently seen in Palestine, as also a camel with one or other of these two. Note that the ox was -clean," the ass -unclean." D does not, like H, prohibit cross-br...
_VER._ 10. _THOU SHALT NOT PLOW WITH AN OX AND AN ASS TOGETHER_— We refer to Leviticus 19:19 respecting these unnatural mixtures. This, as well as the other particulars, is thought to have respect to...
(5) FORBIDDEN MIXTURE (Deuteronomy 22:9-11) 9 Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with two kinds of seed, lest the whole fruit be forfeited, the seed which thou hast sown, and the increase of the vineyar...
_THOU SHALT NOT PLOW WITH AN OX AND AN ASS TOGETHER._ Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. Whether this association, like the mixture of seeds, had been dictated by superstitious motiv...
LAWS REGARDING LOST PROPERTY, DISTINCTION OF SEX IN APPAREL, AND CHASTITY 1-4. Law of Lost Property: see Exodus 23:4 and note....
DEUTERONOMY: GOD’S LAW OF LOVE LOVE AND OBEY THE *LORD YOUR GOD DEUTERONOMY _PHILIP SMITH_ CHAPTER 22 V1 ‘You may see that your neighbour’s *ox or sheep is loose. If you do, you must not avoid i...
(9-11) These precepts appear also in Leviticus 19:19, more briefly....
לֹֽא ־תַחֲרֹ֥שׁ בְּ שֹׁור ־וּ בַ חֲמֹ֖ר
LAWS OF KINDNESS WITH the commands we now have to consider, we leave altogether the region of strict law, and enter entirely upon that of aspiration and of feeling. Kindness, by its very nature, elude...
LAWS OF PURITY (CHASTITY AND MARRIAGE) IN dealing with the ten commandments it has been already shown that, though these great statements of religious and moral truth were to some extent inadequate as...
Here we have the record of the laws conditioning life in love and neighborliness. Every man was enjoined to take care of his brother's lost things if he found them; and he was also to help the hurt an...
Plough. In Leviticus xix. 19, this law is expressed, so as to forbid the procreation of mongrels. See Judges xiv. 18. People who have treated on agriculture observe, that it is a pernicious practice t...
Similar commands we meet with in Leviticus 19:19. Certainly there must have been somewhat of a spiritual meaning couched under these things; and what more likely to be intended by it, than that the he...
It is clear that a new division of the statutes and judgments of this book begins with the later verses just read from Deuteronomy 16:1-22. What belonged to the religious life of Israel was closed wit...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 22, 23, 24, AND 25. Chapter 22 appears to contain ordinances to guard the people from want of benevolence and mercy, and of that which would offend the sensib...
THOU SHALT NOT PLOUGH WITH AN OX AND AN ASS TOGETHER,.... They might be used separately, but not together; nor was it uncommon in some countries for asses to be employed in ploughing as well as oxen....
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together. Ver. 10. _Thou shalt not plough._] These laws were made to set forth how God abhorreth all mixtures in religion, and how carefully men should keep...
_Divers seeds_ Either, 1st, With divers kinds of seeds mixed and sowed together between the rows of vines in thy vineyard: which was forbidden to be done in the field, (Leviticus 19:19,) and here in t...
1 Of humanitie toward brethren. 5 The sexe is to bee distinguished by apparell. 6 The dam is not to be taken with her yong ones. 8 The house must haue battlements. 9 Confusion is to be auoyded. 1...
VARIOUS MINOR REGULATIONS...
Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together, probably on account of the unequal strength and step of the two kinds of animals, which made the attempt both inhumane and unprofitable....
LAWS THAT TEST TRUE DISCERNMENT (vs.1-12) The laws in this section require a proper consideration of God's creation, whether of humans, animals, birds or even inanimate things. This involves our disc...
5-12 God's providence extends itself to the smallest affairs, and his precepts do so, that even in them we may be in the fear of the Lord, as we are under his eye and care. Yet the tendency of these...
Either, 1. Because the one was a clean beast, the other unclean; whereby God would teach men to avoid polluting themselves by the touch of unclean persons or things, 2 CORINTHIANS 6:14. Or, 2. Becau...
The portion of our book on which we now enter, though not calling for elaborate exposition, yet teaches us two very important practical lessons In the first place, many of the institutions and ordinan...
Deuteronomy 22:10 plow H2790 (H8799) ox H7794 donkey H2543 together H3162 2 Corinthians 6:14-16
THE NON-MIXING OF UNLIKE THINGS (DEUTERONOMY 22:9). Unlike things should not be put together as no one could have any idea how they would finally react (compare Leviticus 19:19). By dealing with thing...
ISRAEL MUST AVOID ALL THAT IS UNSEEMLY (DEUTERONOMY 22:5) Israel was to avoid all that was unseemly. That had applied with regard to what living things could be eaten (Deuteronomy 14:3). Now it applie...
CONTENTS: Law of brotherhood, separation, unchaste wives and husbands. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: Christianity teaches us to be neighborly and to be ready to do all good offices as we have...
Deuteronomy 22:5. _All that do so are abomination to the Lord._ The note of Maimonides here is, that men presenting themselves before Venus, appeared partially in female attire; and women presenting t...
_Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together._ A LAW FOR THE OX AND THE ASS There was a reason for this prohibition. The step of an ox and an ass being different, they could not pull together...
DEUTERONOMY—NOTE ON DEUTERONOMY 22:9 These laws prohibit mixing various items, reflecting God’s ordering of creation “according to its kind” (e.g., Genesis 1:25)....
CRITICAL NOTES.—The cases stated and provided for in Deuteronomy 22:1 seem selected by way of example, and belong, according to our notions, rather to ethics than to law. It in noteworthy that no pena...
EXPOSITION REGULATIONS REGARDING CATTLE STRAYED OR THINGS LOST, THE APPAREL OF THE SEXES, THE TAKING OF BIRDS, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF
Now in chapter twenty-two, now in those days they punished people for none involvement. If you saw your brother's ox or his sheep going astray, and you just try to ignore it: [you don't go out and get...
2 Corinthians 6:14...