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Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 22:5-12

Israel Must Avoid All That Is Unseemly (Deuteronomy 22:5-12 ) Israel was to avoid all that was unseemly. That had applied with regard to what living things could be eaten (Deuteronomy 14:3-21). Now it applies to dressing transexually (Deuteronomy 22:5), to dealings with nature (Deuteronomy 22:6-7), and to mixing unlike with unlike (Deuteronomy 22:10-12). Analysis using the words of Moses: a A woman shall not wear what pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for whoever... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 22:9-11

The Non-Mixing of Unlike Things (Deuteronomy 22:9-11 ). Unlike things should not be put together as no one could have any idea how they would finally react (compare Leviticus 19:19). By dealing with things individually many problems could be avoided. There is probably underlying this the idea of respect for the distinctions within creation which must not be blurred. There may also be intended a subtle warning against being involved with the Canaanites, and thus mixing unlike with unlike, for... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 22:1-12

Deuteronomy 22:1-Numbers : . See Exodus 23:4 f.* (JE) and Leviticus 6:1-Judges : * (P), and cf. CH. §§ 9– 13. Deuteronomy 22:5. Peculiar to Dt. In one of the rites of Canaanite, Phœ nician, and Syrian heathenism the sexes changed dresses (see references in Driver). Deuteronomy 22:6 f. Respect for parenthood, so prominent in Dt. ( Deuteronomy 21:18-Ecclesiastes :, cf. Deuteronomy 5:16) is the probable source of this law (peculiar to Dt.). Deuteronomy 22:8 . Another example of the... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:1-30

CRITICAL NOTES.—The cases stated and provided for in Deuteronomy 22:1-12 seem selected by way of example, and belong, according to our notions, rather to ethics than to law. It in noteworthy that no penalty is annexed to the breech of these regulations. No doubt it would be the duty of the “officers” (Deuteronomy 22:16-18) and the elders in the several cities to enforce their observance.—Speak. Com.Deuteronomy 22:1-4. Humanity to neighbours. This is an expansion of Exodus 23:4-5. A stray sheep,... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Deuteronomy 22:1-30

Now in chapter twenty-two, now in those days they punished people for none involvement.If you saw your brother's ox or his sheep going astray, and you just try to ignore it: [you don't go out and get it and so forth, then you're at fault.] you shall in any case bring them again to your brother. And if your brother is not near to you, and you know him not, then you shalt bring them into your own house, and you shall keep them until your brother seeks after them, and thou shalt restore them... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Deuteronomy 22:1-30

Deuteronomy 22:5 . All that do so are abomination to the Lord. The note of Maimonides here is, that men presenting themselves before Venus, appeared partially in female attire; and women presenting themselves before Mars, appeared in armour. Sardanapalus, the last king of Nineveh, was despised by Arbactus for being found in the dress of his queens, and assisting them in spinning. Deuteronomy 22:8 . When thou buildest a new house thou shalt make a battlement, lest waking out of sleep one... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Deuteronomy 22:11

Deuteronomy 22:11Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts.The moral and the positive in the duties of lifeI. That this precept exhibits a “positive” duty. The ground of this ordinance is to be sought for, not in the nature of things, but in the will of God.II. That as the inculcation of a positive duty the precept of the text was not so binding upon the Jews as those duties which were wholly moral. A Jew might be reduced to the alternative either of wearing no garment at all, or of wearing... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Deuteronomy 22:9-11

9-11. Not sow… divers seeds These prohibitions are similar to those in Leviticus 19:19, and seem founded on an aversion to mingling things unlike. read more

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