The fine was to be paid to the father, because the slander was against him principally as the head of the wife’s family. If the damsel were an orphan the fine reverted to herself. The fact that the pe...
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)...
SINS AGAINST PURE MARRIAGES. Deuteronomy 22:14. tokens of virginity: their absence is now known not to be necessarily a proof of pre-nuptial unchastity, though the ancient peoples held the contrary, a...
AMERCE HIM. fine him. Old English....
_amerce_ Or _fine_, also in E, Exodus 21:22. On the estimate of the silver shekel as = 2 _sh_. 9 _d_., this came to £13. 15 _sh_. It is paid to the father who had been responsible for his daughter's i...
Six Laws on Cases of Unchastity Of these the first five prescribe the procedure in criminal cases: 1st. Of a Husband's Charges against His Bride (Deuteronomy 22:13-21); 2nd. Of Adultery (Deuteronomy...
Charges against a Bride. He who, from a base motive, falsely accuses his wife of unchastity before marriage shall after solemn rebuke from the elders be fined 100 silver-pieces and have his right of d...
_VER._ 18, 19. _THE ELDERS—SHALL—CHASTISE—HIM,_ &C.— That is, say the Talmudists, condemn him to receive forty stripes, save one; and they add, that the woman was sent back with a solemn benediction;...
k. SEX OFFENSES (Deuteronomy 22:13-30) (1) VIRGINITY OF A BRIDE (Deuteronomy 22:13-21) 13 If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her, 14 and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring...
_IF ANY MAN TAKE A WIFE, AND GO IN UNTO HER, AND HATE HER,_ If any man take a wife ... The regulations that follow might be imperatively needful in the then situation of the Israelites; and yet it is...
22:19 remain (a-39) Lit. 'be.'...
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...
Deuteronomy 22:13. LAWS OF CONJUGAL FIDELITY. (13-21) VIRGINITY. — The law in these verses will be best appreciated by considering its _effects._ The maidens in Israel would be compelled to guard thei...
וְ עָנְשׁ֨וּ אֹתֹ֜ו מֵ֣אָה כֶ֗סֶף וְ נָתְנוּ֙
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...
And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them] unto the father (i) of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wi...
A hundred. Josephus only mentions 50. As it was presumed that the false accusation proceeded from a desire to defraud the woman of her dowry, the law obliged the husband to allow her double (Calmet) t...
It is interesting to behold, how great provision the LORD was pleased to make, in order that the Israel of GOD, should be as distinguished among the unclean nations around them, as the LORD had distin...
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...
AND THEY SHALL AMERCE HIM IN AN HUNDRED SHEKELS OF SILVER,.... Which was about twelve pounds of our money; this was double the dowry he would have been obliged to have given her, if he had put her awa...
And they shall amerce him in an hundred [shekels] of silver, and give [them] unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife;...
_Give them unto the father of the damsel_ Because this was a reproach to his family, and to himself, as such misconduct of his daughter would have been ascribed to his neglect of properly instructing...
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...
and they shall amerce him, sentence him to pay money, IN AN HUNDRED SHEKELS OF SILVER (about $64), AND GIVE THEM UNTO THE FATHER OF THE DAMSEL, to atone, in a way, for the slander brought upon that fa...
VARIOUS SINS AGAINST THE SANCTITY OF HOLY WEDLOCK...
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...
13-30 These and the like regulations might be needful then, and yet it is not necessary that we should curiously examine respecting them. The laws relate to the seventh commandment, laying a restraint...
UNTO THE FATHER OF THE DAMSEL; because this was a reproach to his family, and to himself, because such a miscarriage of his daughter would have been ascribed to his evil education. HE MAY NOT PUT HER...
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 22:19 fine H6064 (H8804) hundred H3967 silver H3701 give H5414 (H8804) father H1 woman H5291 brou
VARIOUS SEXUAL CRIMES (DEUTERONOMY 22:13). The Protection Of A Woman's Reputation (Deuteronomy 22:13). The rather sad message behind this regulation was that all parents should retain proof of their...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 22:29; Deuteronomy 24:1; Matthew 19:8; Matthew 19:9...
The father — Because this was a reproach to his family, and to himself, as such a miscarriage of his daughter would have been ascribed to his evil education....
Why is the method of testing chastity different here than in Numbers 5? PROBLEM: The Numbers text instructed that chastity be tested by drinking bitter water and seeing if the woman’s stomach would sw...