Treasury of Scripture Knowledge: Exodus 21

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Chapter 21

Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

the judgments

Leviticus 18:5,26 19:37 20:22 Numbers 35:24 36:13 Deuteronomy 5:1,31 6:20 1 Kings 6:12 2 Chronicles 19:10 Nehemiah 9:13,14 10:29 Psalms 147:19 Ezekiel 20:11,25 Malachi 4:4

which

19:7 24:3,4 Deuteronomy 4:5,8,14,45 6:20 Matthew 28:20 1 Thessalonians 4:1

If thou buy an Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve: and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.

an Hebrew

12:44 22:3 Genesis 27:28,36 Leviticus 25:39-41,44 2 Kings 4:1 Nehemiah 5:1-5,8 Matthew 18:25 1 Corinthians 6:20

and in the

Leviticus 25:40-43,45 Deuteronomy 15:1,12-15,18 31:10 Jeremiah 34:8-17

If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

by himself

Heb. with his body.

Deuteronomy 15:12-14

And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

And if

Deuteronomy 15:16,17 Isaiah 26:13 2 Corinthians 5:14,15

shall plainly say

Heb. saying shall say.

Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever.

the judges

22 12:12 18:21-26 22:8,9,28 Numbers 25:5-8 Deuteronomy 1:16 16:18 Deuteronomy 19:17,18 1 Samuel 8:1,2 Isaiah 1:26 Zephaniah 3:3

bore his ear

This significant ceremony was intended as a mark of permanent servitude, and was calculated to impress the servant with the duty of hearing all his master's orders, and obeying them punctually.

Psalms 40:6-8

for ever

Leviticus 25:23,40 Deuteronomy 15:17 1 Samuel 1:22 27:12 28:2 1 Kings 12:7

And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

sell

Nehemiah 5:5

go out

2,3

If she please not her master, who hath betrothed her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a strange nation he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

please not

Heb. be evil in the eyes of, etc.

Genesis 28:8 Judges 14:3 1 Samuel 8:6 18:8 *marg:

who hath

Deuteronomy 20:7 21:11-14

seeing

8:29 Judges 9:19 Job 6:15 Malachi 2:11-15

If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

her food

Sheairah, "her flesh;" he shall not only afford her a sufficient quantity of food, as before, but of the same quality. She is not to be fed, like a common slave, with a sufficiency of bread, vegetables, milk, etc., but with her customary supply of flesh, and other agreeable articles of food.

1 Corinthians 7:1-6

He that smiteth a man, so that he die, shall be surely put to death.

20:13 Genesis 9:6 Leviticus 24:17 Numbers 35:16-24,30,31 Deuteronomy 19:11-13 2 Samuel 12:13 Matthew 26:52

And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

lie not

Numbers 35:11,22 Deuteronomy 19:4-6,11 Micah 7:2

God

1 Samuel 24:4,10,18 2 Samuel 16:10 Isaiah 10:7

I will appoint

Numbers 35:11 Deuteronomy 4:41-43 19:1-3,9 Joshua 20:2-9

But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

presumptuously

Numbers 15:30,31 Deuteronomy 1:43 17:12,13 18:22 19:11-13 1 Kings 2:29-34 Psalms 19:13 Hebrews 10:26 2 Peter 2:10

slay

Numbers 35:20,21 Deuteronomy 27:24 2 Samuel 3:27 20:9,10

take him

1 Kings 1:50,51 2:28-34 2 Kings 11:15

And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 27:24 Proverbs 30:11,17 1 Timothy 1:9

And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.

stealeth

Genesis 40:15 Deuteronomy 24:7 1 Timothy 1:10 Revelation 18:12

selleth him

Genesis 37:28

found in

22:4

And he that curseth his father, or his mother, shall surely be put to death.

curseth

or, revilteth.

Leviticus 20:9 Deuteronomy 27:16 Proverbs 20:20 30:11,17 Matthew 15:3-6 Mark 7:10,11

And if men strive together, and one smite another with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:

men

22 2:13 Deuteronomy 25:11 2 Samuel 14:6

another

or, his neighbour. a stone.

20 Numbers 35:16-24

If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

upon his staff

2 Samuel 3:29 Zechariah 8:4

only he shall pay

This was a wise and excellent institution. The same provision is made in the civil law; and most courts of justice still regulate their decisions in such cases by this Mosaic precept.

the loss

Heb. his ceasing.

And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

smite

26,27 Deuteronomy 19:21 Proverbs 29:19 Isaiah 58:3,4

he shall

Genesis 9:6 Numbers 35:30-33

punished

Heb. avenged.

Genesis 4:15,24 Numbers 35:19 Romans 13:4

Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

Leviticus 25:45,46

If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

strive

as the judges

30 Deuteronomy 16:18 22:18,19

And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

life for life

Numbers 35:31

Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

26,27 Leviticus 24:19,20 Deuteronomy 19:21 Judges 1:6,7 1 Samuel 15:33 Matthew 5:38-40 7:2 Luke 6:38 Revelation 16:6

And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

20 Deuteronomy 16:19 Nehemiah 5:5 Job 31:13-15 Psalms 9:12 10:14,18 72:12-14 Proverbs 22:22,23 Ephesians 6:9 Colossians 4:1

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.

the ox

32 Genesis 9:5,6 Leviticus 20:15,16

But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and his owner also shall be put to death.

his owner also

Deuteronomy 21:1-9

If there be laid on him a sum of money, then he shall give for the ransom of his life whatsoever is laid upon him.

for the ransom

22 30:12 Numbers 35:31-33 Proverbs 13:8

If the ox shall push a manservant or a maidservant; he shall give unto their master thirty shekels of silver, and the ox shall be stoned.

Genesis 37:28 Zechariah 11:12,13 Matthew 26:15 27:3-9 Philippians 2:7

and the ox

28,29

And if a man shall open a pit, or if a man shall dig a pit, and not cover it, and an ox or an ass fall therein;

Psalms 9:15 119:85 Proverbs 28:10 Ecclesiastes 10:8 Jeremiah 18:20,22

The owner of the pit shall make it good, and give money unto the owner of them; and the dead beast shall be his.

29,30 22:6,14

Or if it be known that the ox hath used to push in time past, and his owner hath not kept him in; he shall surely pay ox for ox; and the dead shall be his own.