Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Exodus 23:11
and. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint, have this in text; it need not, therefore, be in italics.
and. Some codices, with Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint, have this in text; it need not, therefore, be in italics.
Verse Exodus 23:11. _THE SEVENTH YEAR THOU SHALT LET IT REST_] As, every _seventh day_ was a _Sabbath day_, so every _seventh year_ was to be a _Sabbath year_. The reasons for this ordinance Calmet gi...
This is the first mention of the Sabbatical year; the law for it is given at length in Leviticus 25:2. Both the Sabbatical year and the weekly Sabbath are here spoken of exclusively in their relation...
CHAPTER 23 FURTHER JUDGMENTS AND DIRECTIONS _ 1. Concerning unrighteous dealings of various kinds (Exodus 23:1)_ 2. Concerning the seventh year (Exodus 23:10) 3. Concerning the three feasts (Exodus...
EXODUS 23:10 E. CALENDAR AND RULES FOR WORSHIP. This passage may originally have followed Exodus 23-26 in the Covenant Book. It has been expanded, Exodus 23:13 being a conclusion (perhaps displaced fr...
_thou shalt_ LET IT DROP _and_ ABANDON IT] viz. the land, less probably the increase: RV. (substantially = AV.) is a paraphrase. The word rendered _let drop_means properly to _fling_or _throw down_(2...
The seventh year to be a fallow year, and the seventh day to be a day of rest. The motive, it may be noticed, is in each case a philanthropic one....
The fallow year. In every seventh year the fields, vineyards, and olive-gardens are to remain uncultivated, such produce as they bear naturally being not gathered by the owners, but left to the poor....
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...
AND SIX YEARS— See Leviticus 25 for the particulars respecting the sabbatical year: see also Deuteronomy 31:10; Deuteronomy 31:30. _Note:_ 1. Every seventh year the land was neither plowed nor sown, n...
THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 23 THOU SHALT NOT TAKE UP A FALSE REPORT: PUT NOT THY HAND WITH THE WICKED TO BE AN UNRIGHTEOUS WITNESS. (2) THOU SHALT NOT FOLLOW A MULTITUDE TO DO EVIL; NEITHER SHALT...
_AND SIX YEARS THOU SHALT SOW THY LAND, AND SHALT GATHER IN THE FRUITS THEREOF:_ SIX YEARS THOU SHALT SOW - intermitting the cultivation of the land every seventh year. But it appears that even then t...
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT (CONCLUDED) 1-19. Miscellaneous Laws....
EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 23 LAWS ABOUT HOW TO BE FAIR AND HOW TO BE KIND – VERSES 1-9 V1 Th...
CEREMONIAL LAWS. (10, 11) SIX YEARS... THE SEVENTH YEAR. — The Sabbatical year which is here commanded was an institution wholly unknown to any nation but the Hebrews. It is most extraordinary that an...
THAT THE POOR OF THY PEOPLE MAY EAT. — For fuller particulars see Leviticus 25:1. The owner was to have no larger part of the seventh year’s produce than any one else. He was to take his share with th...
XXIII. (1-19) The “miscellaneous laws” are here continued. From Exodus 23:1 to Exodus 23:9 no kind of sequence in the laws can be traced; from Exodus 23:10 to the first clause of...
וְ הַ שְּׁבִיעִ֞ת תִּשְׁמְטֶ֣נָּה וּ נְטַשְׁתָּ֗הּ...
LAWS OF CONDUCT AND WORSHIP Exodus 23:1 We may apply these various precepts to our own hearts. Many of them breathe the very spirit of Christ. We must watch our speech, so that no man's character may...
The enactments now recorded have to do with the administration of justice. A study of them reveals that true justice is always merciful and yet makes sterner demand than any moral code of laws. The di...
Year. Thus God was pleased to teach them to place entire confidence in him, and to compassionate the distress of the poor. Most people suppose, that the sabbatic year commenced in autumn; as otherwise...
These verses contain a precept, in which there is much signification. The seventh year, like the seventh day of the week, was sacred, and therefore was to be a sabbath of rest. And it had several very...
"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...
BUT THE SEVENTH YEAR THOU SHALL LET IT REST, AND LIE STILL,.... From tillage, and make its fruits common, as the Targum of Jonathan; the note of Jarchi is, "let it rest", from perfect tillage, as plou...
But the seventh [year] thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyar...
The institution of the sabbatical year was designed, 1st, To show what a plentiful land that was into which God was bringing them, that so numerous a people could have rich maintenance out of the prod...
1 Of slander and false witnesse. 3.6 Of iustice. 4 Of charitablenesse. 10 Of the yeere of rest. 12 Of the Sabbath. 13 Of idolatrie. 14 Of the three feasts. 18 Of the blood and the fat of the sac...
but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still, let it remain unused, make no attempt to cultivate it, THAT THE POOR OF THY PEOPLE MAY EAT, namely, that produced by the land without cultiva...
THE HOLY PERIODS AND FEASTS...
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...
INSISTENCE ON HONESTY (vs.1-9) Consistently with the language of law, the question of honesty is looked at from a negative viewpoint, that is, emphasizing what one should not do. How easily one may c...
OLIVEYARD: Or, olive trees...
10-19 Every seventh year the land was to rest. They must not plough or sow it; what the earth produced of itself, should be eaten, and not laid up. This law seems to have been intended to teach depen...
THOU SHALT LET IT REST, AND LIE STILL, i.e. from manuring, ploughing, tilling, and sowing, and reaping also, by comparing LEVITICUS 25:3. And this God ordained not only for the reason here mentioned,...
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 23:11 seventh H7637 rest H8058 (H8799) lie H5203 (H8804) poor H34 people H5971 eat H398 ...
REGULATIONS CONCERNING ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF YAHWEH'S LORDSHIP (EXODUS 23:10). Here we have two sets of regulations which refer to work and rest. A SEVEN-YEAR REST (EXODUS 23:10). Exodus 23:10 “An
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: Judgments on the national feasts. Instructions concerning the conquest of Canaan. CHARACTERS: God, Moses. CONCLUSION: God's angels will keep the believer in the way, though it lay through...
Exodus 23:1. _Put not thine hand with the wicked,_ do not conspire or agree with them. Exodus 23:3. _Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man._ The meaning of this and the former verse is, there sha...
_The seventh year thou shalt let it rest._ THE SABBATIC YEAR This law was intended-- 1. To show the fertility of the land of promise. Every seventh year, without skill or toil, the land would produ...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 23:10 See note on 20:22–26. ⇐ ⇔...
_MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 23:10_ SABBATIC YEARS AND DAYS It has been said that a life according to nature is the highest good. Now, most certainly, a life conducted on the principles...
THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT.—_Continued_. EXPOSITION EXODUS 23:1 MISCELLANEOUS LAWS—_continued_. The same want of logical arrangement appears in this chapter as in the preceding one. The first nine ve...
Thou shalt not raise a false report: [perjury] to put your hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness. [In other words, conspiracy in perjury.] Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; [Yo...
the seventh Leviticus 25:2 Leviticus 25:11 Leviticus 25:12 Leviticus 25:20...