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Exodus 21:28-36
Bodily injuries due to animals, or neglect of reasonable precautions.
Bodily injuries due to animals, or neglect of reasonable precautions.
Verse Exodus 21:28. _IF AN OX GORE A MAN_] It is more likely that a _bull_ is here intended, as the word signifies _both_, see Exodus 22:1; and the Septuagint translate the שור _shor_ of the original...
The animal was slain as a tribute to the sanctity of human life (Compare the marginal references and Genesis 4:11). It was stoned, and its flesh was treated as carrion. Guilty negligence on the part o...
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 21:28 E. DAMAGES BY OR TO CATTLE. An ox goring anyone to death must be stoned, and might not be eaten, as tainted with blood-guilt (Exodus 21:28). In ancient Greece and elsewhere, and even in m...
IF AN OX GORE A MAN OR A WOMAN— The Hebrew word שׁור _shor,_ might, perhaps, with more propriety, be rendered _a bull;_ the LXX have it ταυρος. The Romans used to mark mischievous _bulls_ by twisting...
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...
_IF AN OX GORE A MAN OR A WOMAN, THAT THEY DIE: THEN THE OX SHALL BE SURELY STONED, AND HIS FLESH SHALL NOT BE EATEN; BUT THE OWNER OF THE OX SHALL BE QUIT._ If an ox gore a man. For the purpose of s...
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...
The following enactments are a good illustration of the spirit of even-handed justice displayed by the Mosaic Law: cp. Genesis 9:5. His flesh shall not be eaten] This would serve to emphasise the horr...
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...
THE OX SHALL BE SURELY STONED — _i.e.,_ he shall die the death of a murderer. HIS FLESH SHALL NOT BE EATEN. — An ox killed by stoning would not be bled in the usual way, and would be “unclean” food f...
(28-32) Injuries to the person might arise either from man or from animals. Protection from both was needed. The law given to Noah (Genesis 9:5) had already laid it down that whenever a beast killed a...
וְ כִֽי ־יִגַּ֨ח שֹׁ֥ור אֶת ־אִ֛ישׁ אֹ֥ו
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...
If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely (t) stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox [shall be] quit. (t) If the beast be punished, much mo...
_Stoned, that he may do no more harm, and that the owner may be punished at least by this loss. (Haydock) --- Sentence was passed by the 23 judges. By the Roman law, the animal which struck a man was...
Observe, from those laws, how offensive in the sight of God blood-shedding is, even when committed by the unconscious brute, as well as by rational creatures....
"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...
28._If an ox gore a man_. Moses now descends even to the brute animals, so that, if they injured any one, by their punishment men may be more and more deterred from shedding blood. If, therefore, a go...
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...
IF AN OX GORE A MAN OR A WOMAN, THAT THEY DIE,.... That are Israelites, of whom only Aben Ezra interprets it; but though they may be principally designed, yet not solely; for no doubt if one of anothe...
If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the owner of the ox [shall be] quit. Ver. 28. _Then the ox shall be surely sto...
_He shall let him go free_ A very fit recompense to a servant for such a loss, and certainly meant to be extended to every other material personal injury. _If an ox_ Or any other creature....
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...
If an ox gore a man or a woman that they die, then the ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten, be considered unclean; BUT THE OWNER OF THE OX SHALL BE QUIT, shall be considered an...
ORDINANCES FOR THE PROTECTION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY...
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...
Under which you are to understand any other creatures of like nature which hurt a man in such a dangerous manner, whether with their horns, or teeth, or feet; but he mentions only the ox or bull, and...
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 21:28 ox H7794 gores H5055 (H8799) man H376 woman H802 death H4191 (H8804) ox H7794 surely...
REGULATIONS FOR INJURIES IN CONNECTION WITH BEASTS (EXODUS 21:28). In this section there is a very basic chiasmus: a Punishment for the goring of a man or woman (Exodus 21:28). b Punishment in respe...
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...
_If an ox gore._ GOD’S REGARD FOR THE SAFETY OF MAN AND BEAST I. God cares for the safety of man. 1. If an ox injured a man for the first time, the life of the ox only was forfeited (Exodus 21:28)....
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 21:28 When an animal gores and kills a person, it SHALL BE STONED, for human life is holy to the Lord (see also Exodus 19:12)....
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 21:28_ GOD’S REGARD FOR THE SAFETY OF MAN AND BEAST.—_Exodus 21:28_ This is an extension of the principle maintained in the preceding section,—the sanctity...
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...
the ox Exodus 21:32 Genesis 9:5 Genesis 9:6 Leviticus 20:15 Leviticus 20