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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land. See how God calls them, not “the poor,” but “thy poor” and “thy needy.” The Church of God should feel a peculiar property in the poor and needy, as if they were handed over, in the love of Christ to his people, that they...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee,.... By others, as by the sanhedrim for theft, for which a man might be sold, but not a woman, as Jarchi observes; but then a father might sell his daughter for an handmaid, if little and under age; and to such cases this law is supposed to refer; see Exodus 21:2 though a man...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. He might be under an apprenticeship of servitude for six years; but the seventh year was to be a year of rest to him, as it was a year of release to debtors, and of rest to the land.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when thou sendest him out free from thee,.... When he discharged him from his servitude, and made him a free man: thou shall not let him go away empty; without anything to support himself, or to put himself in a way of business; he having in the time of his servitude worked entirely for his master, and so could not have got and saved anything...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: To begin life again with nothing at all in his pocket.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou shalt furnish him liberally,.... Not only to supply his present wants, but for his future use, and to set him up in the world: "loading thou shall load him" (h), so some render the words; give him as much as he can carry, and well stand up under; the word used has the signification of chains wore about the neck for honour or ornament, and so...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. Who would think of finding such a law as that on the statute book? Where is there such a law under any governor but God? The Theocracy would have made a grand government...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt,.... Where they were used hardly, and their lives were made bitter in hard bondage; and therefore should show the greater compassion to servants, whose case they could not but sympathize with, and have a fellow feeling of and the Lord thy God redeemed thee; from the house of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day. The remembrance of their own deliverance out of Egyptian bondage was to make them merciful and kind to their own bondservants.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee,.... Out of his house, nor quit his service: because he loveth thee and thine house; his master and his family, and so loath to leave them, but chooses rather to stay with them than have his liberty; hence the Jews say (k), if his master has not a wife and children, his ear is not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee; then thou shalt take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door, and he shall be thy servant for ever. And also unto thy maidservant thou shalt do likewise. It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then thou shall take an awl, and thrust it through his ear unto the door,.... Not of his master's house, but of the sanhedrim, or court of judicature, according to the Targum of Jonathan, before whom he was to be brought, and declare his desire to continue with his master; [See comments on Exodus 21:6], and he shall be thy servant for ever; that...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
It shall not seem hard to thee when thou sendest him away free from thee,.... He should not grudge him his liberty, nor what he gives to him when he dismisses him: for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee in serving thee six years; since a hired servant a man is obliged to pay him wages for his work, besides his food, whereas a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest. This exposition consisted of readings from Lev_25:1-7; Lev_25:17-22, and Deu_15:1-18.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
All the firstling males that come of thy herd, or of thy flock, thou shalt sanctify unto the Lord thy God,.... According to the law in Exodus 13:2. [See comments on Exodus 13:2]; [See comments on Exodus 13:12]; [See comments on Exodus 13:13]; thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock: as to plough or tread out the corn with it, which...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God, year by year,.... Which, if understood of male firstlings, as in connection with the preceding verse, only priests might eat of them, being devoted to the Lord; so Jarchi says, to the priest he speaks; but if this respects the Israelites in common, then they must be understood either of female firstlings...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And if there be any blemish therein,.... In the firstling, as if it be "lame or blind", or have any ill blemish: thou shall not sacrifice it unto the Lord thy God; blemishes in any beast made it unfit for sacrifices which were required; and so all peace offerings, vows, and freewill offerings, were to be free from any, Leviticus 22:19, such were...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Thou shalt eat it within thy gates,.... Though it might not be sacrificed, nor eaten as an eucharistic feast at Jerusalem, it might be eaten as common food in their own houses: the unclean and the clean person shall eat it alike; such as were ceremonially unclean, by the touch of a dead body or the like, might partake of it with those that were...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof,.... Of the firstling: thou shalt pour it upon the ground as water; [See comments on Deuteronomy 12:16], [See comments on Deuteronomy 12:23], [See comments on Deuteronomy 12:24].