Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
Exodus 21:18
With a stone, or with his fist. — Comp. The difference made under the English law between wounding with a sharp or a blunt instrument.
With a stone, or with his fist. — Comp. The difference made under the English law between wounding with a sharp or a blunt instrument.
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...
MEN. Hebrew, plural _of 'ish, or'enesh._ See App-14. one. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. another his neighbor....
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...
Bodily injury inflicted in a quarrel....
_contend_ or _dispute_, wrangle in words: rendered _strive_, Genesis 26:20-21, _contend_, as here, Nehemiah 13:11; Nehemiah 13:17. _fist_...
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 MEN STRIVE TOGETHER, AND ONE SMITE ANOTHER WITH A STONE, OR WITH HIS FIST, AND HE DIE NOT, BUT KEEPETH HIS BED:_ If men strive together ... Should a quarrel arise between two or more individu...
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...
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...
וְ כִֽי ־יְרִיבֻ֣ן אֲנָשִׁ֔ים וְ הִכָּה ־אִיש
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...
And if men strive together, and one smite another with a (n) stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth [his] bed: (n) Either far away from him or near....
The apostle hath the best comment upon these precepts. Ephesians 6:9; Ephesians 6:9....
"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...
18._And if men strive together_. The punishment here enacted for wounds and blows is so slight, that it might have served as a provocative to the mischievousness of the ill-disposed. Since the Law of...
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 MEN STRIVE TOGETHER,.... Quarrel and fight, and wrestle with and box one another: AND ONE SMITE ANOTHER WITH A STONE; which lying near him he might take up, and in his passion throw it at his...
_And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with [his] fist, and he die not, but keepeth [his] bed:_ Ver. 18. _If men strive together._] This is counted manhood, when indeed i...
_With a stone_ Or any other instrument fit for such a mischievous purpose. _The loss of his time_ Of the profit which he commonly made of his time in the way of his calling. _Shall cause him to be hea...
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...
And if men strive together, in a quarrel which culminates in physical violence, AND ONE SMITE ANOTHER WITH A STONE OR WITH HIS FIST, with a clod, AND HE DIE NOT, BUT KEEPETH HIS BED, is confined to hi...
CONCERNING MURDER AND BODILY INJURIES...
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...
ANOTHER: Or, his neighbour...
12-21 God, who by his providence gives and maintains life, by his law protects it. A wilful murderer shall be taken even from God's altar. But God provided cities of refuge to protect those whose unh...
WITH A STONE, or any other instrument fit for such a mischievous purpose. A usual synecdoche....
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 21:18 men H582 contend H7378 (H8799) other H376 strikes H5221 (H8689) other H7453 stone H68 or...
REGULATIONS IN RESPECT OF EXTREME VIOLENCE TO ANOTHER (EXODUS 21:12). The following regulations all deal with extreme violence towards others. This came first in matters to do with behaviour towards...
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 men strive together._ LESSONS 1. Passions and contentions breed many sad events among neighbours. 2. Smitings, and wounds, and sickness, and death are usual effects of sudden passions. 3. In c...
EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 21:1 This section contains basic guidelines for living together as a just society and as a people set apart to the Lord. The specific laws are not intended to be exhaustive but a...
_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...
men Exodus 21:22 Exodus 2:13 Deuteronomy 25:11 2 Samuel 14:6 another or his neighbour. a stone...