Exode 21:8 BDS

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 21:7-11

Provision in Respect of A Woman Sold To Be A Slave Wife. The remaining provisions protected a woman sold to be a slave wife permanently and were necessary for her. It meant that she could not be discarded when older. It will be noted that this system allowed a form of divorce. It was not really God’s purpose, but controlled a system that already existed because of the hardness of their hearts. We may analyse this as follows: a A woman bought with promises of marriage could not be treated in... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 21:2-11

Exodus 21:2-1 Kings : E. The Laws of Slavery.— In the 19th cent. slaves were bought and sold as chattels in Liverpool. Here we see one of the stages towards the abolition of slavery, i.e. regulation, then the only practicable course. Hebrews might become slaves through sale by parents, or forced sale for theft or insolvency, or through poverty (p. 110). Later stages of law are reflected in Deuteronomy 15:12-Job : * and Leviticus 25:39-2 Timothy : *. A male slave by six years’ service... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Exodus 21:8

Who hath betrothed her to himself, for a concubine or secondary wife. Not that masters did always take maid-servants upon these terms, as some conceive; but that some did so, and of them this place speaks. Though here is a differing reading; and as the margin hath lo the pronoun, signifying to him, so the text hath lo the adverb, signifying not; and so the text may be translated thus, so that he doth not betroth her, to wit, to himself, or to his son, as he gave her hopes he intended. Either... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Exodus 21:7-11

CRITICAL NOTES.—Exodus 21:7. Not as the men-servants] From Deuteronomy 15:17, ‘Kalisch infers that in this place foreign female servants are intended, whereas in that place Hebrew domestics are meant, by which supposition the seeming contradiction is removed.MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Exodus 21:7-11THE RIGHTS OF THE FEMALE SLAVEThis passage is somewhat obscure, and in its interpretation we find comparatively little help from the Commentators. It treats of that state of concubinage which... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Exodus 21:1-36

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 seventy to rule over the lesser, or they appointed "men over the thousands, men over the hundreds, men over the fifties, men over the tens", to judge in the smaller matters. So that they would only bring the major cases to Adam-I mean to Moses, so that Moses wouldn't be bogged down. Jethro said, "Hey,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 21:1-36

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 and modified so as to promote order, purity and justice, in the whole community. The American Indians are found to have had many of these laws, as will be cited under the particular precept. Theodore Beza has left us a Latin work entitled Mosaycarum & Romanorum Legum Collatio, the Mosaic code... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Exodus 21:7-11

Exodus 21:7-11If a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant.Degraded condition of girls in AfricaThe condition of girls in Africa is thus described by a missionary: “A father looks upon his girl as being of the value only of so many goats, and he is ready to sell her as soon as any man offers him the required payment. Thus, while she is quite young--perhaps only four or five--her life and liberty may have been sold away by her own father, and sooner or later she must become the wife, the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Exodus 21:8

Exo 21:8 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. Ver. 8. He hath dealt deceitfully with her. ] By not answering her expectation. This God tolerated for the hardness of their hearts, but approved not. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Exodus 21:8

please not: Heb. be evil in the eyes of, etc. Genesis 28:8, Judges 14:3, 1 Samuel 8:6, 1 Samuel 18:8, *marg. who hath: Deuteronomy 20:7, Deuteronomy 21:11-2 Chronicles : seeing: Exodus 8:29, Judges 9:19, Job 6:15, Malachi 2:11-Ezra : Reciprocal: Ruth 4:2 - the elders read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Exodus 21:8

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.Who hath betrothed her to himself — For a concubine, or secondary Wife. Not that Masters always took Maid-servants on these terms. read more