Exodus 19:1--24:11
third <07992> [A.M. 2513. B.C. 1491. An. Ex. Is. 1. Sivan. the third.]
came <0935> [came.]
Rephidim <07508> [Rephidim.]
Desert ......... desert <04057> [the desert.]
Mount Sinai, called by the Arabs Jibbel Mousa, the Mountain of Moses, and sometimes by way of eminence, El Tor, the Mount, is a range of mountains in the peninsula formed by the gulfs of the Red Sea. It consists of several peaks, the principal of which are Horeb and Sinai; the former, still called Oreb, being on the west, and the latter, called Tur Sina, on the east, at the foot of which is the convent of St. Catherine. Dr. Shaw conceives that the wilderness of Sinai, properly so called, is that part which is to the eastward of this mount; so that the removal of the Israelites from Rephidim, which was on the West, to the desert of Sinai, was only removing from one part of the mountain to another.
camped ...... camped <02583> [camped.]
up <05927> [went up.]
called <07121> [called.]
seen <07200> [seen.]
lifted .... eagles <05375 05404> [I bare you.]
diligently listen <08085> [if ye.]
keep <08104> [keep.]
special possession <05459> [a peculiar.]
earth <0776> [all the earth.]
kingdom <04467> [a kingdom.]
holy <06918> [and an.]
elders <02205> [the elders.]
set <07760> [and laid.]
come <0935> [Lo.]
people ......................... people <05971> [that the.]
believe <0539> [believe.]
sanctify <06942> [sanctify.]
wash <03526> [wash.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
boundaries <01379> [set bounds.]
Take heed <08104> [Take.]
touch ..... touches <05060> [or touch.]
beast <0929> [whether.]
ram's horn <03104> [when the trumpet. or, cornet.]
sanctified <06942> [and sanctified.]
Be ready <01961 03559> [Be ready.]
third <07969> [the third.]
near ... wives <05066 0802> [come not.]
thunder ............. sound <06963> [thunders.]
dense <03515> [thick.]
thunder ............. sound <06963> [voice.]
people <05971> [all the people.]
Mount Sinai ............................... mountain <05514 02022> [mount Sinai.]
[See on ver.]
fire <0784> [in fire.]
smoke ...... smoke <06227> [as the smoke.]
Mount ................................ mountain <02022> [whole.]
sound ................... voice <06963> [And when.]
Moses <04872> [Moses.]
God <0430> [God.]
Lord ... down ............. Lord <03068 03381> [the Lord came.]
Moses ......... Moses ... up <04872 05927> [Moses went up.]
solemnly <05749> [charge. Heb. contest.]
force <02040> [break.]
priests <03548> [the priests.]
sanctify <06942> [sanctify.]
break through <06555> [break.]
Set boundaries <01379> [Set bounds.]
up ..................... up <05927> [and thou.]
priests <03548> [but let.]
break through <06555> [lest.]
Lord <03068> [the Lord.]
brought <03318> [brought.]
land ...... house <0776 01004> [out of the.]
slavery <05650> [bondage. Heb. servants.]
bow down <07812> [bow down.]
Lord <03068> [for I.]
responding <06485> [visiting.]
reject <08130> [of them.]
showing <06213> [shewing.]
love .... keep <0157 08104> [love me.]
take ................. guiltless <05375> [take.]
guiltless <05352> [guiltless.]
seventh <07637> [the seventh.]
do <06213> [thou shalt.]
male servant <05650> [thy manservant.]
resident foreigner <01616> [thy stranger.]
Honor <03513> [Honour.]
time <03117> [that thy.]
neighbor's house ....... neighbor's ....................... neighbor <07453 01004> [thy neighbour's house.]
wife <0802> [wife.]
neighbor's ........ neighbor's ....................... neighbor <07453> [is thy neighbour's.]
people ........................ people <05971> [And all.]
trembled <05128> [they removed.]
speak ....... listen ....... speak <01696 08085> [Speak thou.]
God <0430> [let not.]
fear ... God <03372 0430> [Fear not.]
test <05254> [prove.]
fear <03374> [his fear.]
people <05971> [the people.]
thick darkness <06205> [thick.]
spoken <01696> [I have talked.]
altar <04196> [altar.]
burnt offerings <05930> [burnt.]
place <04725> [in all places.]
bless <01288> [will bless thee.]
make <06213> [And.]
build .... stones shaped with tools <01496 01129> [build it of hewn stone. Heb. build them with hewing.]
nakedness <06172> [thy nakedness.]
decisions <04941> [the judgments.]
set <07760> [which.]
Hebrew <05680> [an Hebrew.]
seventh <07637> [and in the.]
himself ....... himself <01610> [by himself. Heb. with his body.]
servant <05650> [And if.]
<0559> [shall plainly say. Heb. saying shall say.]
judges <0430> [the judges.]
pierce ... ear <0241 07527> [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.
forever <05769> [for ever.]
sells <04376> [sell.]
go out <03318> [go out.]
does not please ... master <07451 0113> [please not. Heb. be evil in the eyes of, etc.]
designated <03259> [who hath.]
deceitfully <0898> [seeing.]
food <07607> [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.
premeditation <06658> [lie not.]
<0430> [God.]
appoint <07760> [I will appoint.]
if .... willfully <02102> [presumptuously.]
kill <02026> [slay.]
take ...... altar <03947 04196> [take him.]
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
kidnaps <01589> [stealeth.]
sells him .... caught <04376 04672> [selleth him.]
him .... caught ... holding <04672 03027> [found in.]
treats <07043> [curseth. or, revilteth.]
<0582> [men.]
neighbor <07453> [another. or, his neighbour. a stone.]
staff <04938> [upon his staff.]
<05414> [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.
loss of time <07674> [the loss. Heb. his ceasing.]
strikes <05221> [smite.]
surely ... punished <05358> [he shall.]
surely ... punished <05358> [punished. Heb. avenged.]
fight <05327> [strive.]
court decides <06414> [as the judges.]
life .... life <05315> [life for life.]
This is the earliest account we have of the [towtopatheia,] tautopatheia,] Lex Talionis, law of like for like.
ox .............. ox .................. ox <07794> [the ox.]
owner ............... killed .............. man .... put to death <01167 04191> [his owner also.]
redemption <06306> [for the ransom.]
ox .................... ox <07794> [and the ox.]
sheep ..................... sheep ..... sheep <07716 06629> [sheep. or, goat. he shall.]
There is a smaller compensation required in other things, (ver. 9,) and also a disproportion between an ox and a sheep. The reason of the former is, as Maimonides explains it, because money, goods, etc., are better guarded in houses and cities, than cattle in a field; which consequently can be more easily stolen. The reason of the latter seems to be, as it is explained by Bishop Patrick, that an ox was of greater value, and more useful for the purposes of husbandry.
five .... cattle <02568 01241> [five oxen.]
breaking <04290> [breaking.]
blood <01818> [no blood.]
sold <04376> [then he shall.]
in fact ... found <04672> [found.]
pay back double <07999 08147> [he shall restore double.]
make restitution <07999> [shall he make restitution.]
fire breaks out <0784 03318> [If fire break out.]
Mr. Harmer observes, that it is a common custom in the East to set the dry herbage on fire; which fires, from want of care, often produce great damage. Hence a law to guard against such evils was highly expedient.
stacked grain <01430> [so that the stacks of corn.]
started ... fire <01200 01197> [he that kindled the fire.]
thief ... caught <01590 04672> [if the thief be found.]
repay double <07999 08147> [let him pay double.]
judges <0430> [the judges.]
cases ... illegal possessions ........................... matter <01697 06588> [for all manner of trespass.]
cases .............................. matter .... two ................... double <08147 01697> [the cause of both parties.]
two .................. repay double <08147 07999> [pay double unto his.]
oath .... Lord <03068 07621> [an oath of the Lord.]
laid <07971> [that he hath not.]
stolen from ..... pay <01589 07999> [stolen from him.]
torn ... pieces <02963> [torn in pieces.]
bring .... evidence <05707 0935> [let him bring it for witness.]
Or, rather, "Let him bring" {aid hatteraiphah,} an evidence of the thing torn, such as the horns, hoofs, etc.
borrows <07592> [borrow.]
it ..... borrowed ..... pay <07999> [make it good.]
paid .... hire <07939 0935> [it came for his hire.]
man seduces <06601 0376> [a man entice.]
her ... refuses <03985> [utterly.]
pay <08254> [pay. Heb. weigh.]
bride price ... virgins <01330 04119> [dowry of virgins.]
sacrifices <02076> [sacrificeth.]
utterly <02763> [utterly.]
wrong ... foreigner ........ foreigners <01616 03238> [vex a stranger.]
foreigner ........ foreigners <01616> [for ye were strangers.]
cry <06817> [they cry at all.]
surely hear <08085> [I will surely.]
anger <0639> [my wrath.]
wives <0802> [your wives.]
take ........ pledge <02254> [to pledge.]
cries out <06817> [when he crieth.]
gracious <02587> [for I am gracious.]
God <0430> [the gods. or, judges.]
curse <0779> [nor curse.]
hold back <0309> [shalt not delay.]
[the first of they ripe fruits. Heb. they fulness. liquors.]
Heb. tear. the firstborn.
this <03651> [Likewise.]
seven days ............. on .... day <07651 03117> [seven days.]
holy <06944> [holy.]
eat <0398> [neither.]
give <05375> [shalt not.]
give <05375> [raise. or, receive. an unrighteous witness.]
follow ................. agrees <0310> [follow.]
testimony <06030> [speak. or, answer. to decline.]
see <07200> [If thou see.]
not ignore ... but ... sure ... help <02308 05800> [and wouldest forbear to help him. or, Wilt thou cease to help him? or, wouldest cease to leave thy business for him; thou shalt surely leave it to join with him.]
distance .... false <07368 08267> [far from.]
innocent <05355> [the innocent.]
justify <06663> [for I will not.]
accept <03947> [thou shalt take.]
see <06493> [the wise. Heb. the seeing.]
oppress <03905> [thou shalt not.]
know <03045> [ye know.]
life <05315> [heart. Heb. soul.]
seventh <07637> [the seventh.]
olive grove <02132> [olive-yard. or, olive-trees.]
six days ............ day <08337 03117> [Six days.]
son <01121> [and the son.]
attention <08104> [be circumspect.]
mention <02142> [make no mention.]
Feast <02282> [the feast.]
appear <07200> [and none.]
Feast ... Harvest ................ Feast <07105 02282> [feast of harvest.]
Ingathering <0614> [in-gathering.]
blood <01818> [blood.]
festal sacrifice <02077 02282> [sacrifice. or, feast. remain.]
first .... firstfruits <07225 01061> [first of the.]
cook ... young goat <01310 01423> [Thou shalt not seethe a kid.]
The true sense of this passage seems to be that assigned by Dr. Cudworth, from a MS. comment of a Kara‹te Jew. "It was a custom with the ancient heathens, when they had gathered in all their fruits, to take a kid, and boil it in the dam's milk; and then in a magical way, to go about and sprinkle all their trees, and fields, and gardens, and orchards with it, thinking by these means, that they should make them fruitful, and bring forth more abundantly in the following year. Wherefore, God forbad his people, the Jews, at the time of their in-gathering, to use any such superstitious or idolatrous rite."
angel <04397> [Angel.]
prepared <03559> [prepared.]
heed because <08104 06440> [Beware of him.]
rebel ........ pardon <04843 05375> [provoke him not.]
pardon <05375> [he will not.]
name <08034> [my name.]
enemies <0340> [an enemy.]
adversary .... adversaries <06696 06887> [an adversary unto thine adversaries. or, I will afflict them that afflict thee.]
angel <04397> [mine Angel.]
Amorites <0567> [thee in.]
Hivites <02340> [the Hivites.]
The LXX., Samaritan, Coptic, and one Hebrew MS. add, "and the Girgashite;" thus making the seven nations.
bow <07812> [shalt not.]
do ..... practices <06213 04639> [do after.]
according ......... overthrow <02040> [overthrow.]
serve <05647> [And ye.]
bless <01288> [he shall.]
remove <05493> [I will take.]
miscarry ........ your <07921> [shall nothing.]
number <04557> [the number.]
terror <0367> [my fear.]
destroy <02000> [destroy.]
backs <06203> [backs. Heb. neck.]
hornets <06880> [hornets.]
{TzirÆ’h,} The hornet, may be so called from the Arabic {zaraÆ’,} to lay prostrate, strike down, because of the destruction occasioned by the violence of its sting. The hornet, in natural history, belongs to the species Crabro, of the genus Vespa or Wasp. It is a most voracious insect, and exceedingly strong for its size, which is generally an inch in length.
one year <08141 0259> [in one year.]
set <07896> [I will set.]
I will deliver ... inhabitants <05414 03427> [deliver the.]
make <03772> [shalt make.]
gods <0430> [nor with.]
sin <02398> [they make.]
snare <04170> [it will surely.]
up <05927> [Come up.]
Nadab <05070> [Nadab.]
seventy <07657> [seventy.]
decisions <04941> [all the judgments.]
words .................. words <01697> [All the words.]
wrote <03789> [wrote.]
built <01129> [and builded.]
standing stones <04676> [twelve pillars.]
<08147> [according.]
young ... men <05288> [young men.]
burnt offerings <05930> [burnt offerings.]
peace offerings <08002 02077> [peace offerings.]
blood ........... blood ... splashed <01818 02236> [the blood he.]
altar <04196> [on the altar.]
Book <05612> [the book.]
read <07121> [read.]
Lord <03068> [All that.]
splashed <02236> [sprinkled.]
blood ............. blood <01818> [Behold.]
saw <07200> [saw.]
sapphire <05601> [of a sapphire stone.]
The Hebrew {sappir,} is without doubt the sapphire; which is a most beautiful precious stone of a fine blue colour, second only to the diamond in lustre, hardness, and value. The ancient oriental sapphire is supposed to have been the same as the lapis lazuli. It glitters with golden spots; and is of an azure or sky-blue colour, but rarely intermixed with purple. The ruby and topaz are considered of the same genus.
clear <02892> [in his clearness.]
leaders <0678> [nobles.]
hand ........ so <07971 03027> [laid not.]
saw <02372> [they saw.]
ate <0398> [did eat.]
