Exo 21 | TSK | STEP | Laws for men servants. For the servant whose ear is bored. For women servants. For manslaughter. For stealers of men. For cursers of parents. For smiters. For a hurt by chance. For an ox that gores. For him that is an occasion of harm. the judgments. which.

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.

Ps 40:6-8

for ever.

Le 25:23,40; De 15:17; 1Sa 1:22; 27:12; 28:2; 1Ki 12:7

sell.

Ne 5:5

go out.

2,3

please not. Heb. be evil in the eyes of, etc.

Ge 28:8; Jud 14:3; 1Sa 8:6; 18:8; *marg:

who hath.

De 20:7; 21:11-14

seeing.

8:29; Jud 9:19; Job 6:15; Mal 2:11-15

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.

1Co 7:1-6

20:13; Ge 9:6; Le 24:17; Nu 35:16-24,30,31; De 19:11-13

2Sa 12:13; Mt 26:52

lie not.

Nu 35:11,22; De 19:4-6,11; Mic 7:2

God.

1Sa 24:4,10,18; 2Sa 16:10; Isa 10:7

I will appoint.

Nu 35:11; De 4:41-43; 19:1-3,9; Jos 20:2-9

presumptuously.

Nu 15:30,31; De 1:43; 17:12,13; 18:22; 19:11-13; 1Ki 2:29-34

Ps 19:13; Heb 10:26; 2Pe 2:10

slay.

Nu 35:20,21; De 27:24; 2Sa 3:27; 20:9,10

take him.

1Ki 1:50,51; 2:28-34; 2Ki 11:15 To smite either father or mother, in a manner which indicated either contempt or malice, or left marks of violence, was deemed a proof of so ungrateful and unnatural a disposition, that no provocation was admitted as an excuse, but the offence was made capital: nay, he who cursed his father or mother, who uttered imprecations, ill wishes, or revilings, against a parent, was included in the same sense; though few crimes were made capital by the law of Moses. The law of God, as delegated to parents is honoured when they are honoured, and despised when they are despised: and to rebel against the lawful exercise of this authority is rebellion against God.--Rev. T. Scott

De 21:18-21; 27:24; Pr 30:11,17; 1Ti 1:9

stealeth.

Ge 40:15; De 24:7; 1Ti 1:10; Re 18:12

selleth him.

Ge 37:28

found in.

22:4

curseth. or, revilteth.

Le 20:9; De 27:16; Pr 20:20; 30:11,17; Mt 15:3-6; Mr 7:10,11

men.

22; 2:13; De 25:11; 2Sa 14:6

another. or, his neighbour. a stone.

20; Nu 35:16-24

upon his staff.

2Sa 3:29; Zec 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.

smite.

26,27; De 19:21; Pr 29:19; Isa 58:3,4

he shall.

Ge 9:6; Nu 35:30-33

punished. Heb. avenged.

Ge 4:15,24; Nu 35:19; Ro 13:4

Le 25:45,46

strive.

as the judges.

30; De 16:18; 22:18,19

life for life.