Leviticus 24:10

_AND THE SON OF AN ISRAELITISH WOMAN, WHOSE FATHER WAS AN EGYPTIAN, WENT OUT AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL: AND THIS SON OF THE ISRAELITISH WOMAN AND A MAN OF ISRAEL STROVE TOGETHER IN THE CAMP;_ The son of an Israelitish woman ... This passage narrates the enactment of a new law, with a detail of the circumstances which gave rise to it. The "mixed multitude" (cf. Nehemiah 13:3) that accompanied the Israelites in their exodus from Egypt, creates a presumption that marriage connections of the kind described were not infrequent (cf. 1 Chronicles 4:18). And it was most natural, in the relative circumstances of the two people, that the father should be an Egyptian and the mother an Israelite....

10._And the son of an Israelitish woman. _In what year, and in what station in the desert this occurred, is uncertain. I have, therefore, thought it advisable to couple together two cases, which are not dissimilar. It is probable that between this instance of punishment, and that which will immediately follow, there was an interval of some time: but the connection of two similar occurrences seemed best to preserve the order of the history; one of the persons referred to having been stoned for profaning God’s sacred name by wicked blasphemy, and the other for despising and violating the Sabbath. It is to be observed that the crime of the former of these gave occasion to the promulgation of a law, which we have expounded elsewhere: (81) in accordance with the common proverb, Good laws spring from bad habits: for, after punishment had been inflicted on this blasphemer, Moses ordained that n...

10-23 This offender was the son of an Egyptian father, and an Israelitish mother. The notice of his parents shows the common ill effect of mixed marriages. A standing law for the stoning of blasphemers was made upon this occasion. Great stress is laid upon this law. It extends to the strangers among them, as well as to those born in the land. Strangers, as well as native Israelites, should be entitled to the benefit of the law, so as not to suffer wrong; and should be liable to the penalty of this law, in case they did wrong. If those who profane the name of God escape punishment from men, yet the Lord our God will not suffer them to escape his righteous judgments. What enmity against God must be in the heart of man, when blasphemies against God proceed out of his mouth. If he that despised Moses' law, died without mercy, of what punishment will they be worthy, who despise and abuse the...

Verse Leviticus 24:10. _THE SON OF AN ISRAELITISH WOMAN, WHOSE FATHER_ WAS _AN EGYPTIAN, C._] This is a very obscure account, and is encumbered with many difficulties. 1. It seems strange that a person proceeding from such an illegal mixture should have been _incorporated_ with the Israelites. 2. What the _cause_ of the strife between this mongrel person and the Israelitish man was is not even hinted at. The rabbins, it is true, supply in their way this deficiency they say he was the son of the Egyptian whom Moses slew, and that attempting to pitch his tent among those of the _tribe of Dan_, to which he belonged by his mother's side, Leviticus 24:11, he was prevented by a person of that tribe as having no right to a statio

EXPOSITION The reason why the narrative of the blasphemer's death (Leviticus 24:10-3) is introduced in its present connection, is simply that it took place at the point of time which followed the promulgation of the last law. It serves, however, to vindicate by a memorable example the principle which is at the foundation of every Mosaic law. "I am the Lord" is the often-repeated sanction, whether of a moral law or of a ceremonial regulation. But this bastard Israelite, one of the mixed multitude that had followed in the flight from Egypt (Exodus 12:38), blasphemed the Name of the Lord. If such blasphemy were to go unpunished, the obligation of law was dissolved. For, as Lange has said, "A community which suffers the reviling of the principle of their community without reaction, is mo

AND THE SON OF AN ISRAELITISH WOMAN,.... Whose name, and the name of his mother, are afterwards given; WHOSE FATHER [WAS] AN EGYPTIAN; Jarchi says, this is the Egyptian whom Moses slew, Exodus 2:12; and so others in Abendana: WENT OUT AMONG THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL; went out of Egypt with them, according to the Targum of Jonathan, and so was one of the mixed multitude, which came from thence with them, which is not improbable; some say he went out of Moses's court of judicature; but it is more likely that the meaning is, he went out of his tent, so Aben Ezra, into the midst of the camp, to claim his rank and place among the people of Israel; though the Jewish writers, as Jarchi and Aben Ezra, take this phrase, "among the children of Israel", to signify that he was a proselyte, and became a Jew, or had embraced the Jewish religion in all respects:...

3. BLASPHEMY AND ISRAEL'S SIN FORESHADOWED CHAPTER 24:10-23 _ 1. The blasphemy (Leviticus 24:10)_ 2. The penalty executed (Leviticus 24:23) The blasphemer who blasphemed the Name and cursed, foreshadows the sin of Israel. They sinned and blasphemed that holy Name: and on account of the rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ, the curse has come upon them. But it will not be permanent. The remnant of Israel will be saved in the future day, when He comes back and they shall welcome Him: “Blessed is He that cometh in the Name of the Lord.” The Jews have based upon this incident of the blasphemer the traditional belief that it is sinful to pronounce the Name of Jehovah. For this reason they substitute the word “Adonai.” The twenty-fourth chapter shows in its first par

LEVITICUS 24:10; LEVITICUS 24:23. The punishment for blasphemy connected, as in Leviticus 10:1 and Sabbath breaking, with an actual example. Language and literary manner suggest that the section is later than H, as also the new beginning in Leviticus 24:15 and the position of Leviticus 24:23. The guilty man, the offspring of a mixed marriage (forbidden in Deuteronomy 7:3;...

A MAN OF ISRAEL. Hebrew. man (' _i_. _h_, App-14.) an Israelite. Jewish tradition says he was. Danite. STROVE TOGETHER. Compare Exodus 2:13. The Chaldee version says the semi-Egyptian strove to encamp in the tribe of Dan....

Incident of the blasphemer, and laws arising out of that occurrence or suggested by it. This section closely resembles Numbers 15:32-36, which relates the punishment of the man found gathering sticks on the sabbath day. The blasphemer was only half Israelite; according to Deuteronomy 23:8 children of the Edomites and the Egyptians were admitted into the congregation in the third generation, but after the Return alliances with Egyptians and other -strange" nations were prohibited (Ezra 9:10; Nehemiah 13) on the ground that from such mixed marriages harmful results to the Jewish faith might be anticipated....