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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 21:7

Exo 21:7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do. Ver. 7. She shall not go out. ] But upon better terms. He that was to come "in the form of a servant," Php 2:7 see what care he takes of poor servants’ welfare. Lawyers seldom speak but for great men, or when they may have great gifts. Christ is not of that humour. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Exodus 21:7

sell: Nehemiah 5:5 go out: Exodus 21:2, Exodus 21:3 Reciprocal: Genesis 31:15 - sold us Deuteronomy 21:14 - thou shalt Isaiah 50:1 - or which read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 21:1-36

THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT, Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33. Here follows a collection of sundry laws which were compiled by Moses, and doubtless represent the oldest written legislation of the Pentateuch. This compilation probably constituted “the book of the covenant” which is mentioned in Exodus 24:7. Kalisch classifies the laws under three heads: (1 . ) Those touching the rights of persons, Exodus 21:1-32; (2 . ) Those touching the rights of property, Exodus 21:33 to Exodus 23:14; and (3 . )... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Exodus 21:7

7. Sell his daughter This might occur because of extreme poverty and want . Nehemiah 5:5. The verses following show that this kind of a sale was contemplated as essentially a betrothal; but they also serve to exhibit the inferior position in which women were held as compared with men . They might be sold by their parents for maidservants, and so take the place of concubines in the family of the purchaser . But this statute was attended by the following provisions: (1 . ) A maidservant,... read more

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